LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
ETHNOCENTRISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM
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Question
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How can hockey be Canada’s national sport? It is a dumb game compared to baseball or football.Does this statement show ethnocentrism?
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Yes
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No
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -It states that individual person’s beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual’s own culture. This enhances tolerance towards other beliefs and norms. However moral values are relative as there is no objective truth, it changes with context and situation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cultural relativism refers to not judging a culture to our own standards of what is right or wrong, strange or normal.
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