I was discussing with a friend saying that in almost every other field the world is changing for the better quickly (relatively speaking...) - poverty, hunger,

I was discussing with a friend saying that in almost every other field the world is changing for the better quickly (relatively speaking...) - poverty, hunger, health, education, sanitation, communications etc.... Except in one key area- our tolerance and acceptance of those unlike ourselves. Sure- there has been and will continue to be great and positive change on the "tolerance" front as well. 40 years ago - the world seemed to have come together to solve a "vertical/one off" tolerance problem around blacks and civil rights. Now- the African American community (not everybody of course!) themselves are opposed to Gay marriages: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2011/02/whats_with_african_american_op.html http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2011/02/whats_... Why has there no concerted effort to horizontally and structurally attack the tolerance problem so that we are not solving new tolerance problems towards a new class of people every generation? Why hasn't the Bill and Melinda Gates or any of the large non-profits large/stealth/public marketing/branded/communication effort to solve this problem. Maybe- the argument for structural tolerance has to be linked to prosperity and capitalism that Paul Romer is suggesting.