LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
ETHNOCENTRISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM
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Question
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In Cambodia’s northwestern town of Siem Reap, visitors can learn to cook spiders and bugs. 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: -Ethnocentrism is the tendency to judge another culture by the standards of one’s own culture. Ethnocentrism usually entails the notion that one’s own culture is superior to everyone else’s. Example: Americans tend to value technological advancement, industrialization, and the accumulation of wealth.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cultural relativism refers to not judging a culture to our own standards of what is right or wrong, strange or normal.
Detailed explanation-3: -The belief that one’s culture is inferior to another culture is called: ethnocentrism.
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