LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
ETHNOCENTRISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM
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Question
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Women in India wear red on their wedding day while most Christians wear white. 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: -Cultural relativism is the idea that a person’s beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person’s own culture, rather than be judged against the criteria of another.
Detailed explanation-2: -It states that individual person’s beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual’s own culture. This enhances tolerance towards other beliefs and norms. However moral values are relative as there is no objective truth, it changes with context and situation.
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