Cultural Relativism
Cultural Relativism
Cultural Relativism
RELATIVISM
Definition
• Cultural relativism refers to the idea that the values, knowledge, and
behavior of people must be understood within their own cultural context.
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Definition
• Cultural Relativism is the view that moral or ethical systems, which
vary from culture to culture, are all equally valid and no one system is
really “better” than any other.
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Examples
1. 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?
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Examples
3. Colonialism refers to the social system in which the political
conquests by one society of another leads to “cultural domination
with enforced social change”.
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Advantages and
Disadvantages
of
Culture Relativism
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Advantages
1. It is a system which promotes cooperation.
2. It creates a society where equality is possible.
3. People can pursue a genuine interest.
4. Respect is encouraged in a system of cultural relativism.
5. It preserves human cultures.
6. Cultural relativism creates a society without judgment.
7. Moral relativism can be excluded from cultural relativism.
8. We can create personal moral codes based on societal standards with ease.
9. It stops cultural conditioning.
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Disadvantages
1. It creates a system that is fueled by personal bias.