A human rights culture means people in a society understand what their rights are and understand that they have a duty to respect and tolerate other people using their rights. The Bill of Rights in the Constitution guarantees our rights and says we can defend them in court. This will go a long way towards creating a human rights culture. But building a human rights culture depends mostly on the attitudes of individuals, and the respect and tolerance that is shown amongst people.

People are tolerant when they learn to accept and live with the differences in other people, whether it is their attitudes, actions, cultures, religions, sexual orientation , lesbian, bisexual, etc). For example, a tolerant person will accept that other people have different opinions to their own. They will respect them by allowing them to express these without shouting at them or assaulting them.