LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
ETHNOCENTRISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM
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Question
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In other cultures, eye contact can be considered rude and a challenge of authority. This reflects a/ an ____
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Ethnocentrism
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Cultural Relativism
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -: the attitude that one’s own group, ethnicity, or nationality is superior to others. Yet Brumidi was ignored, the victim of ethnocentrism and snobbery.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ethnocentrism is the experience of seeing one’s own culture as superior to other cultures. It is an element of intercultural communication that has the potential to greatly affect how one communicates.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ethnocentrism often leads to incorrect assumptions about others’ behavior based on your own norms, values, and beliefs. In extreme cases, a group of individuals may see another culture as wrong or immoral and because of this may try to convert, sometimes forcibly, the group to their own ways of living.
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