LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
ETHNOCENTRISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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you will get into fewer fights
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people are likely to reciprocate when the feel respected
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people will believe you are like them
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it won’t
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cultural relativism tries to counter ethnocentrism by promoting the understanding of cultural practices that are unfamiliar to other cultures such as eating insects, genocides or genital cutting. Take for example, the common practice of same-sex friends in India walking in public while holding hands.
Detailed explanation-2: -In order to understand diversity, we need to understand cultural relativism, the positive and negative aspects, how it is better than ethnocentrism, how this idea can be understand using the simple tools. Our attitudes effect our morality and no ones’ group or culture is superior to the other.
Detailed explanation-3: -Conclusion. Cultural relativists are correct that sometimes we should be more tolerant and accepting of cultural differences. Some things done in other cultures are unfamiliar and may seem strange. But “different” is not the same as “wrong, ‘’ and learning about relativism can remind us of that.