LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
ETHNOCENTRISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM
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Question
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What might be the result of ethnocentrism on a global scale?
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Other people may be treated as savage or morally corrupt.
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There is no way to determine which is right or wrong.
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Native people often wish to colonize superior culture.
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Believing one’s own culture is superior makes one a morally corrupt savage.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In addition, ethnocentrism can lead to specific intergroup emotions, such as fear and contempt. It could also lead to dehumanisation, delegitimisation, and moral exclusion of ethnic outgroups. Further, it can fuel ethnic wars, ethnic cleansing, and even genocide.
Detailed explanation-2: -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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