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Cultural relativism promotes acceptance, harmony, respect, and, most importantly, peace amongst people who do not share the same beliefs or traditions.  Cultural relativism assists  social scientists in identifying and discarding cultural biases and preconceptions in order to better understand other cultures on their own terms. It fosters unity and coexistence with others in this ethnically and culturally diverse world.

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Cultural relativism is not ethnocentrism. This means that cultural relativism is not or is not about:

An idea based on the ability to judge another culture.

Comparing of cultures.

Determining whether one culture is superior to the other.

Cultural relativism does not entail judging other cultures, customs, behaviors, ideas, and individuals using one's own culture or ethnicity as a frame of reference rather than the standards of the culture in question.

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The concept of cultural relativism holds that a person's beliefs and practices should be understood in light of their own culture. Cultural relativists argue that the norms and values of one culture should not be judged by the norms and values of another. It teaches and reminds us that no culture is superior than another. It is the ability to understand a culture on its own terms rather than making judgments based on one's own cultural standards.

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Cultural relativism provides a development to everyone. It is the best spot to introduce the world our difference without negative judgment and comparison. Everyone is equal, no one is superior. Through this, society can improve in so many ways, top spot is interaction.

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Making fun, disrespecting and having a superior culture doesn't define cultural relativism. Cultural Relativism is a positive way to introduce cultures to the world without negative judgment.

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Cultural relativism is understanding that all culture is unique. It is the ability to respect culture without negative comparison taking one as a superior. It is allowing people to communicate effectively. Cultural Relativism also provides a platform to share culture and tell how unique they are.

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Cultural Relativism is important to be  developed, acquire, and nurture to oneself. This helps to lessen negative and deteriorating negative behaviors and attitudes circling the society like discrimination, racism, and shaming. Attaining intellect in cultural relativism leads to a frame-of-mind that there's no superiority nor inferiority in culture. Different cultures have their own different beliefs, ideas, concepts, as well as moral codes. Therefore in instances, it can also build connection and cooperation among the beings of earth by culture as its bridge. It also construct and build a society where equality and equity is possible lessening the arising disputes and issues. With culture relativism, cultures of different countries and individual can be preserved resulting to a culture diversity.

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Culture Relativism is not making negative behaviors, influences, and negative effects to become common in the circle of culture, but to promote and foster equality and equity among them reducing the inferiority and superiority of culture not just basing on biased judgements, own standard settings, and prejudicing minds of oneself.

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Something that Cultural Relativism is NOT about being judgmental. It does not think that one culture is better than another, even though it has obvious biases to one more than the other. It does not evaluate other cultures based on preconceived ideas and beliefs nor does it put one's own culture on a high pedestal and use it as a standard to judge other cultures.

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Cultivating cultural relativism in one's self can help slowly dissipate acts of discrimination and racism because it teaches individuals appreciate cultural diversity as well as respect for those differences.

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Culture Relativism is about respecting, understanding, and treating equitably all the customs, beliefs, practices, ideas, aspects, ethics, and traditions of different cultures in the world. It helps people to take a good look of the culture in different ways and perspectives without having any negative impact, both the human itself and culture being addressed with. It helps individual not to be biased, criticized, discriminate, and shame other culture just because its different to our own culture. In culture relativism there's no superior nor inferior culture since everone is treated fairly.

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Cultural Relativism is the belief that there is no such thing as a superior and inferior culture. It recognizes the the equality of each despite the fact that there are differences, whether it be minor or major, and respects, appreciates, and celebrates them.

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Cultural relativism is NOT making judgments using the standards of one’s own culture. Another culture cannot be compared to our own standards of what is right or wrong, strange or normal. According to Lumen, an educational platform, there is no absolute standard of good or evil, therefore every decision and judgment of what is right and wrong is individually decided in each society. This concept also means that any opinion on ethics is subject to the perspective of each person within their particular culture. Overall, there is no right or wrong ethical system.

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How is culture defined?

What if someone told you their culture was the internet? Would that make sense to you? Culture is the beliefs, behaviors, objects, and other characteristics shared by groups of people. Given this, someone could very well say that they are influenced by internet culture, rather than an ethnicity or a society! Culture could be based on shared ethnicity, gender, customs, values, or even objects. Can you think of any cultural objects? Some cultures place significant value in things such as ceremonial artifacts, jewelry, or even clothing. For example, Christmas trees can be considered ceremonial or cultural objects. They are representative in both Western religious and commercial holiday culture.

In addition, culture can also demonstrate the way a group thinks, their practices, or behavioral patterns, or their views of the world. For example, in some countries like China, it is acceptable to stare at others in public, or to stand very close to others in public spaces. In South Africa, if you board a nearly empty bus or enter a nearly empty movie theater, it is regarded as polite to sit next to the only person there. On the other hand, in a recent study of Greyhound bus trips in the US, a researcher found that the greatest unspoken rule of bus-taking is that if other seats are available, one should never sit next to another person. Numerous passengers expressed that "it makes you look weird". These are all examples of cultural norms that people in one society may be used to. Norms that you are used to are neither right nor wrong, just different. Picture walking into a nearly empty movie theater when visiting another country, and not sitting next to the only person in the theater. Another person walks up and tells you off for being rude. You, not used to these norms, feel confused, and anxious. This disorientation you feel is an example of culture shock.

What is cultural relativism?

Have you ever seen or eaten food from another country, such as dried squid or fried crickets and think of it as weird and gross? This is an example of ethnocentrism! That means you use your own culture as the center and evaluate other cultures based on it. You are judging, or making assumptions about the food of other countries based on your own norms, values, or beliefs. Thinking "dried squid is smelly" or "people shouldn't eat insects" are examples of ethnocentrism in societies where people may not eat dried squid or insects.

Is ethnocentrism bad or good? On the one hand, ethnocentrism can lead to negative judgments of the behaviors of groups or societies. It can also lead to discrimination against people who are different. For example, in many countries, religious minorities (religions that are not the dominant religion) often face discrimination. But on the other hand, ethnocentrism can create loyalty among the same social group or people in the same society. For example, during the World Cup or Olympics, you may tend to root for your own country and believe that the players or teams representing your country are much better. National pride is also part of ethnocentrism.

To avoid judging the cultural practices of groups that are different to yours, we can use the cultural relativism approach. Cultural relativism refers to not judging a culture to our own standards of what is right or wrong, strange or normal. Instead, we should try to understand cultural practices of other groups in its own cultural context. For example, instead of thinking, "Fried crickets are disgusting! " one should instead ask, "Why do some cultures eat fried insects?". You may learn that fried crickets or grasshoppers are full of protein and in Mexico, it is famous Oaxaca regional cuisine and have been eaten for thousands of years as a healthy food source!

Some people worry that the concept of culture can also be abused and misinterpreted. If one culture behaves one way, does that mean all cultures can behave that way as well? For example, many countries and international organizations oppose the act of whaling (the fishing of whales) for environmental reasons. These environmental organizations say that there are not many whales left and such fishing practices should be stopped. However, other countries argue that whaling is a cultural practice that has been around for thousands of years. Because it may be part of a country's oceanic culture, this country may say that such a cultural practice should not be opposed based on cultural differences, say, by an inland country that does not understand. Who gets to define what a moral cultural behavior is? Is whaling immoral? Two different cultures may have very different answers, as we saw in the above example. Another more extreme instance would be female genital cutting in some parts of the world. Locally, it is argued that the practice has cultural roots, but such a practice has raised concerns among many international human rights organizations.

Anthropologists say that when we think about different cultures and societies, we should think about their customs in a way that helps us make sense of how their cultural practices fit within their overall cultural context. For example, having several wives perhaps makes economic sense among herders who move around frequently. Through such an understanding, polygamy makes cultural sense.

What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (linguistic relativism) and how does it impact us?

In the 1930s, two anthropologists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf, noticed that the Hopi Indians in the United States had no words to differentiate between the past, present, and future. This was a surprising discovery. In English, we can easily think of tense and know what time frame someone is referring to. The two scholars found that the way language is used affected the way we think about and perceive the world. In other words, worldviews and cultural influences are largely embedded within the language we use, even if we are saying things like coffee. When we talk about coffee in the US, we would think of a large mug, and the coffee would come from a pot of coffee. When Europeans talk about coffee, they are most likely thinking about little espresso cups filled with strong coffee.

How a language affects the way we think about the world is called linguistic relativism or the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Linguistic relativism means that there are certain thoughts we have in one language (e.g. English) that cannot be understood by those who exist in another language context (e.g. Spanish). The way we think is also strongly affected by our native languages. For example, the Inuits (northern aboriginals) have dozens of ways to convey the word snow. In English, how many ways can you think of to express snow? Maybe four or five ways? Snow, flurry, sleet,...?

Let's think about another everyday example. Imagine that we are watching an American teen movie on TV. The main character walks into the high school cafeteria, and sees the students sitting in a particular arrangement: the jocks, the mean girls, the nerds, the band geeks, the stoners, the goths. If you went to an American high school, you may immediately understand what the groupings mean. However, even among those of you that did go to an American high school, the definition of mean girls may be completely different. Now think, on the other side of the world, a high school student watching this movie in China would be very confused. If you try to explain these groupings to someone outside the linguistic cultural context, it becomes very difficult. Why are people in bands geeks? What is a stoner, can someone be both a nerd and a stoner at the same time?

So, learning a language does not mean only learning words. It also means that we need to learn the cultural contexts that are embedded in the language itself. Languages reflect our cultural experiences. For example, if you hear someone say that ginger is warm food, and melons are chilly food, in English, it may make little sense. However, for those who are well-versed in Chinese or Ayurvedic medicine will likely understand that warm foods would be good for the sniffles or even rheumatoid arthritis, while chilly foods would be good for constipation or mouth ulcers. Sometimes doctors in a US hospital are confused when Chinese language speakers express pain symptoms in English as hot and cold. These are all examples of cultural and linguistic differences and the importance of understanding language and culture.

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Cultural relativism is the ability to understand a culture on its own terms. The Cross-Cultural Relationship is the idea that people from different cultures can have relationships that acknowledge, respect and begin to understand each other's diverse lives. Using the perspective of cultural relativism leads to the view that no culture is superior than another culture when compared to systems of morality, law, politics, etc.

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The Cross-Cultural Relationship is the idea that people from different cultures can have relationships that acknowledge, respect and begin to understand each others diverse lives. People with different backgrounds can help each other see possibilities that they never thought were there because of limitations, or cultural proscriptions, posed by their own traditions. Traditional practices in certain cultures can restrict opportunity because they are "wrong" according to one specific culture. Becoming aware of these new possibilities will ultimately change the people that are exposed to the new ideas. This cross-cultural relationship provides hope that new opportunities will be discovered but at the same time it is threatening. The threat is that once the relationship occurs, one can no longer claim that any single culture is the absolute truth.

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. Using the perspective of cultural relativism leads to the view that no one culture is superior than another culture when compared to systems of morality, law, politics, etc. [11] It is a concept that cultural norms and values derive their meaning within a specific social context. This is also based on the idea that there is no absolute standard of good or evil, therefore every decision and judgment of what is right and wrong is individually decided in each society. The concept of cultural relativism also means that any opinion on ethics is subject to the perspective of each person within their particular culture. Overall, there is no right or wrong ethical system. In a holistic understanding of the term cultural relativism, it tries to promote the understanding of cultural practices that are unfamiliar to other cultures such as eating insects, genocides or genital cutting.

There are two different categories of cultural relativism: Absolute: Everything that happens within a culture must and should not be questioned by outsiders. The extreme example of absolute cultural relativism would be the Nazi party's point of view justifying the Holocaust.

Critical: Creates questions about cultural practices in terms of who is accepting them and why. Critical cultural relativism also recognizes power relationships.

Absolute cultural relativism is displayed in many cultures, especially Africa, that practice female genital cutting. This procedure refers to the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or any other trauma to the female reproductive/genital organs. By allowing this procedure to happen, females are considered women and then are able to be married. FGC is practiced mainly because of culture, religion and tradition. Outside cultures such as the United States look down upon FGC, but are unable to stop this practice from happening because it is protected by its culture.

Cultural relativism can be seen with the Chinese culture and their process of feet binding. Foot binding was to stop the growth of the foot and make them smaller. The process often began between four and seven years old. A ten foot bandage would be wrapped around the foot forcing the toes to go under the foot. It caused the big toe to be closer to the heel causing the foot to bow.[4]In China, small feet were seen as beautiful and a symbol of status. The women wanted their feet to be "three-inch golden lotuses"三寸金蓮[3] It was also the only way to marry into money. Because men only wanted women with small feet, even after this practice was banned in 1912, women still continued to do it. To Western cultures the idea of feet binding might seems torturous, but for the Chinese culture it was a symbol of beauty that has been ingrained the culture for hundreds of years. The idea of beauty differs from culture to culture.

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References

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2. Zmago Šmitek and Božidar Jezernik, "The anthropological tradition in Slovenia." In: Han F. Vermeulen and Arturo Alvarez Roldán, eds. Fieldwork and Footnotes: Studies in the History of European Anthropology. 1995.

1. ^ Peter L. Berger, Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective, Anchor, 1963, ISBN 0385065299

2. ^ C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination, Oxford University Press, 1961, ISBN 0195133730

3. ^ Louisa Lim, Painful Memories for China's Footbinding Survivors http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8966942

4. ^ James A. Crites Chinese Foot Binding, http://www.angelfire.com/ca/beekeeper/foot.html

5. ^ http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/cultural-relativism.htm

6. ^ Justin Marozzi, The son of the Father of History, 2007, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3665968/The-son-of-the-Father-of-History.html

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External links

What is Anthropology? - Information from the American Anthropological Association

SLA- Society for Linguistic Anthropology

^ Schultz, Emily A., and Robert H. Lavenda. Cultural Anthropology : A Perspective on the Human Condition. New York: Oxford UP, Incorporated, 2009.pg.79.

^ Schultz, Emily A., and Robert H. Lavenda. Cultural Anthropology : A Perspective on the Human Condition. New York: Oxford UP, Incorporated, 2009. pgs. 332-333

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Cultural Relativism is important because it promotes understanding and respect to people (and culture) that have different beliefs, practices, and behaviour.
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Cultural relativism opens up a way for us to enjoy and understand all culture. Since the world contains a variety of culture, cultural relativism helps us avoid hate crimes and moves us a step closer to unification.

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Everyone may agree that culture is an important component of our life. It has an impact on our beliefs, values, goals, dreams, and even our anxieties and concerns. We live in a world that is diverse in ethnicity, therefore having a broad viewpoint and awareness of many cultures is essential. People gain a sense of belonging, personal growth, and the ability to understand and engage with others through culture. -Baleta, Kizza Louise

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Cultural relativism brings us together as one society and it avoids discrimination. This also avoids having conflict. If everyone understands that no culture is superior, we'd all be more welcome in this world.

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The notion that all moral views and ethical systems are equally legitimate is known as cultural relativism. It emphasizes an independent viewpoint that determines how a person behaves, thinks, and reacts.

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Cultural relativism is not viewing that one's culture is more superior than another culture. It doesn't impose bias and it focuses more and promotes the understanding of other culture.- Bobis, John Arsie

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Cultural relativism is important in the society because it allows us to be more open and accepting to other culture. It helps us to see the bigger picture or perspective of the situation rather than looking at one side. In addition, cultural relativism promotes cooperation and equality in the society. - Galicia, Zerline Francine, D.

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Cultural relativism isn't about judging all other cultures, especially those that are viewed as ethically dubious. It's also not evaluating a culture by our criteria of right and wrong, unusual and usual.
-Helaena Tiffany Ala

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Cultural relativism is important to avoid discrimination but respect each and everyone, because we all have different and unique culture. It is needed to create peace and harmony in our society.

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Cultural relativism tries to counter ethnocentrism by promoting the understanding of cultural practices that are unfamiliar to other cultures.
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Cultural Relativism promotes the perspective that no culture is superior from another. It also promotes being open to other cultures. It also prevents racism and discrimination.

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Cultural relativism is not judging or giving bias in each other's culture. It doesn't differentiate what culture is right or wrong. It doesn't divide our respective by one's culture to another.

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It is being ethnocentric wherein a person sets his own culture as a standard or being superior. This kind of view on culture tends to ridicule that is the opposite of being a cultural relativist.

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This is important as it does not lead to conflicts and discrimination between two societies with regards to their culture.

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Cultural relativism is important because it leads to the view that no culture is superior than the other and it promotes open-mindedness and understanding other cultures without judgement.
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Cultural relativism does not encourage prejudice and discrimination amongst different cultures, it is not bias and it is not egocentric.
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The notion of cultural relativism is attractive and makes a good scapegoat for the idea of ​​what is moral. On the basis of each individual society, some actions are considered good while others are considered bad. This suggests that educating people about other cultures and increasing their literacy can help reduce ethnocentrism and promote cultural relativism. The growing interaction between members of different ethnic groups and between different cultures increases cultural relativism. It is a system that promotes cooperation and  creates a society where equality is possible. People can pursue a genuine interest and respect  encouraged in a system of cultural relativism. Preserving human culture. Cultural relativism creates a society without judgment. In addition to its intrinsic value, culture offers important social and economic benefits. With better learning and health, greater tolerance and opportunities to be with others, culture improves our quality of life and increases the overall well-being of both individuals and society.

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We can understand one's culture helps us to expand our knowledge on the differences in culture. We can also have the capability to not to make judgments using the standards of one’s own culture.

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Cultural Relativism does not practice being judgemental towards another society's culture and being bias towards your own culture. -Vince Orozco

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Cultural Relativism does not practice being judgemental towards another society's culture and being bias towards your own culture. -Vince Orozco

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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. It is the idea that a person's beliefs and practices should be understood based on that person's own culture. It gives us an understanding that no culture is superior than another culture. Proponents of cultural relativism also tend to argue that the norms and values of one culture should not be evaluated using the norms and values of another.

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The importance of cultural relativism is that it knows how to interact with different beliefs and practices equally. Added to this, cultural relativism helps promote understanding and promote peace within other cultures.

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It promotes understanding among the different group. It destroy barriers in our society and eliminate discrimination.

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It promotes understanding among the different group. It destroy barriers in our society and eliminate discrimination.

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It does not apply one's own culture or ethnicity as a frame of reference to judge other cultures, practices, behaviors, beliefs, and people, instead of using the standards of the particular culture involved. -Baleta, Kizza Louise

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It is essential to understand diverse culture and beliefs because we live in a world where different cultures co-exist. It also helps us to prevent hate crimes rooted from ignorance of other ethnicities and culture. Understanding each other's individualities will give harmony to our existence as human beings. It helps us to view ourselves not just as people of different races but of humanity as a whole.

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Cultural relativism is not about judging other people's culture, instead it is looking to other culture by its own perspective rather than one's own perspective. - Galicia, Zerline Francine, D.

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Cultural relativism is important in the society because it promotes peace and harmony among all of society's cultures. (Bonaobra, Rejean )

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Cultural relativism is not viewing other people's culture as superior than others and it is also not judging other's culture as bad or wrong.
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Culture relativism is not applying our own standard of what is right or wrong in other people's culture.

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Cultural relativism refers to the refusal to judge a culture according to our own standards of what is right or wrong, unusual or ordinary.

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Cultural relativism is not about judging anothe culture based upon the values and standards set in one's own culture. It is also not a form of bias where we tend to judge another culture.

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Cultural Relativism is not about making one's culture the standard in seeing/judging other cultures. It is not about being bias of other cultures.

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Cultural relativism is not looking for another culture from the perspective of one's own culture to give a judgment and does not believe that his culture is far more superior than the others.

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Cultural relativism is important to understand that a person should not be discriminated just because their culture is different. It is needed for us to realize that all cultures are equal.

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In common usage, it can also simply mean any culturally biased judgment. The opposite of ethnocentrism is cultural relativism, which means to understand a different culture in its own terms without subjective judgments. the superiority of your own culture. Ethnocentrism that results from judging other cultures by your own cultural ideals.

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Cultural relativism is not judgmental or bias and does not view one's culture as the right one or the wrong one. This does not view one's culture as the standard of all cultures.

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Cultural relativism is about understanding and respecting all beliefs, customs, and ethics of different cultures by looking in their perspective. It is also knowing that no one has the right to judge if the culture has is no right or wrong since a universal standard doesn't exist.

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It is the discrimination of other culture by making your own culture as the standard basis.

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It is the discrimination of other culture by making your own culture as the standard basis.

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-Bequio, Joebert M.

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It allows better connection and communication between groups and individuals. It promotes fair system of actions and thoughts, and eliminates possibilities of conflict. Cultural relativism allows us to see the value of other culture and regard  them with respect. - John Lloyd Belen

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It allows better connection and communication between groups and individuals. It promotes fair system of actions and thoughts, and eliminates possibilities of conflict. Cultural relativism allows us to see the value of other culture and regard  them with respect. - John Lloyd Belen

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The importance of cultural relativism in today's society is that it helps in having cultural understanding without having judgement that may cause to discrimination of ones culture. It also shows respect for differences of other culture.

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Cultural relativism refers to not judging a culture to our on standards of what is right or wrong, strange or normal. It focuses on understanding the background of one's culture. - Bobis, John Arsie

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Cultural relativism is the idea that no culture is superior to another. It discusses the common knowledge of accepting and respecting other people's culture. -Galicia, Zerline Francine, D.

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Cultural relativism is not biased towards their own culture and does not regard one's own culture as superior to all others in society. (Bonaobra, Rejean Mikaela)

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Cultural relativism is the understanding of one’s culture without judging from how they act. It pertains that there is no correct way of doing things in terms of culture. Hence, every culture is unique depending on how we view it in the culture that we are pertaining to.

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Cultural relativism is not a biased way of knowing other cultures. It is not a way of disregarding the beliefs and practices of other culuture.

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It is not a form of judgement where you see your own culture as a superior one or even an inferior one. It does not show discrimination or disrespect to other culture.

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What cultural relativism is not is imposing bias and prejudice on someone just because their culture is different.

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Cultural relativism isn't judgements, biases, or prejudice. It is not settling on  one side  of something, it is not being  centered on only one culture. In short, it  is not cultural ethnocentrism.

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Cultural relativism does not support Tolerance towards other culture. It is not judging a culture to our own standards.

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Cultural relativism is about understanding one's culture without judging it as bad or wrong using the standards of another culture. It is also about viewing all moral beliefs and customs as equally important and not superior to one another.
-Diana Nicole Buiza

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Cultural relativism is a perspective that tries to understand the difference of cultures amongst different societies, it is a mindset that avoids prejudice, and promotes appreciation.
-Arellano, Maria Franchezca

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Culture relativism is important since it let us view that no culture is superior than another culture. It also allows us to study other cultures without making moral judgment.

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Cultural relativism does not subject the culture of others with judgment and indifference.
- Winona Venice Barias

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Culture relativism is the way of understanding another culture un-biased on what the person believes in.

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Cultural relativism is the analysis of a culture from its point of view. It shows how all cultures are equal, that no culture is above or below one another.

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It pushes us to know the reasons for beliefs that are different from our own, as well as encouraging us to analyze our own beliefs and values.

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It makes our world a place wherein everyone respects each other and avoids conflict regardless of the difference in culture.

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Cultural relativism was originally a method to help anthropologists rid themselves of such biases. It may have the potential to help others too. Cultural Relativism plays a significant role in maintaining a harmonious society and aids us to  live peacefully in a vast world of cultures.

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Cultural relativism is apprehending and validating the culture of others. Diversity of cultures, even those with conflicting moral beliefs, is not to be considered in terms of right and wrong or good and bad.
- Winona Venice Barias