LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
ETHNOCENTRISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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you are entitled to hurt people who are not from your culture group
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it’s ok to be wrapped up only in their own culture
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the values, beliefs, ideas and practices of one’s own culture are the best, the most valid, the most natural, the most human
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ethnocentrism is believing that someone’s culture is better than others. It is bad because it leads to judging another culture as inferior to one’s own culture. This in turn can leads to predjudices and racism.
Detailed explanation-2: -Anyone who judges people or traditions based on his own cultural standards is guilty of ethnocentrism. It means believing that the way you’re used to doing things is the only right way to do them, and that people or cultures that do things differently are wrong.
Detailed explanation-3: -Historical examples of these negative effects of ethnocentrism are The Holocaust, the Crusades, the Trail of Tears, and the internment of Japanese Americans. These events were a result of cultural differences reinforced inhumanely by a superior, majority group.