LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Religious beliefs and arranged marriages are also examples of cultural relativism. There are practices in religion and marriage that are acceptable in some cultures but not in others. However, this does not qualify individuals to criticize each other’s practices, and they tolerate them as they are.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cultural relativism is the ability to understand a culture on its own terms and not to make judgments using the standards of one’s own culture. The goal of this is promote understanding of cultural practices that are not typically part of one’s own culture.

Detailed explanation-3: -other people may be treated as savage or morally corrupt. there is no way to determine right or wrong. native peoples often wish to colonize superior cultures. believing one’s own culture is superior makes one a morally corrupt savage.