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BUSINESS COMMUNICATION

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A business owner might yell at his foreign employees and use derogatory terms to refer to them because of their different races, cultures, or values which are different from his. Another business owner based in a developed country may refuse to merge with a company that is originally based in a developing country because he believes that the developing country is very inferior to his own. The above are examples of ____ at the workplace.
A
barriers
B
stereotypes
C
ethnocentrism
D
discrimination
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Cultural relativism tries to counter ethnocentrism by promoting the understanding of cultural practices that are unfamiliar to other cultures such as eating insects, genocides or genital cutting. Take for example, the common practice of same-sex friends in India walking in public while holding hands.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ethnocentrism compares other cultures by using a group’s specific culture as the basis of that comparison, believing theirs to be superior and the standard to be used in comparison to other cultures. Cultural relativism, on the other hand, believes that culture is understood best through its own people.

Detailed explanation-3: -Here are some examples of cultural ethnocentrism: In the United States, eating cows as food is a common practice. In India, the cow is a sacred animal and cannot be eaten.

Detailed explanation-4: -There are two types of cultural relativism: absolute cultural relativism (A culture even when considered strange should not be questioned) and critical cultural relativism (the importance to find out why some cultures are practiced so asking questions is fine).

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