Tolerance

...There's a word I hate to hear and use.

It reeks of effort and implies a forced accommodation of something you wouldn't happily endure otherwise.

You usually see statements that proceed as follows:
"We must tolerate the opinions, practices, religions, races, nationality, etc. of the people around us for they are out fellow human beings"

Wouldn't life be much better if we stopped TOLERATING... and started ACCEPTING differences, and the things that divide us so? Maybe even EMBRACING or CELEBRATING these differences?