Essays on Cultural Relativism

Introduction Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism both have the same essential ideas with a couple of major differences, they both relate to how we judge another’s culture. Ethnocentrism is when we evaluate a culture with the standards of our own. Cultural relativism is the idea that…

If we look around at the whole universe today, there are tons and millions of cultures centered everywhere around the globe. With this much cultures in the universe, people are bound to believe that they’re all divergent. Even though they are dissimilar in some aspects,…

When we are asked if we are moral, most people would say yes without even thinking about it. We all like to believe we are moral without truly reflecting on what being moral is. Morality is a widely debated topic from in worldly contexts, to…

The Universalism vs. Cultural Relativism debate has existed in legal scholarship for decades and is increasingly entering public discourse on international law and human rights. Universalism refers to the notion that human rights are universal and should apply to every human being. While, Cultural Relativists…

Ethnocentrism vs Cultural Relativism The difference between these two worldviews are vast but both views are very well and alive in today’s society. There are very few things that are actually similar between these two views, the only thing that they really have in common…

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea’s quest to a remote village, El Nahra, in Iraq gave us readers an insight of issues of culture shock and cultural relativism many people do not get to experience. As the women of the village called her, BJ was urged to adjust…

Cultural Relativism: Is it Promoting Abuse of Human Rights or is it Eliminating Culture? When studying other cultures it is important to have a set of standards in which to observe by. It is very easy for example to pass judgement on cultures that are…