LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
ETHNOCENTRISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM
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Question
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He regards another culture as superior.
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He regards his own culture as superior.
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He regards his own culture as normal and uses it to measure foreign cultures.
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He regards another culture as superior and uses it to measure his own culture
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cultural relativism refers to not judging a culture to our own standards of what is right or wrong, strange or normal. Instead, we should try to understand cultural practices of other groups in its own cultural context.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ethnocentrism is the tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one’s own culture. Part of ethnocentrism is the belief that one’s own race, ethnic or cultural group is the most important or that some or all aspects of its culture are superior to those of other groups.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ethnocentrism can lead to stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination and often arises from a community’s understanding of how things should be-whether regarding large questions of right and wrong or everyday customs and behaviors.