Are All Cultures Just As Valid?

Are all Cultures Just as Valid?
“When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” To understand cultural relativism, we must first understand what culture is. The word “culture” originally meant care for growing living things, such as plants. A culture is a set of ideas and ways of acting that is developed by a group of people who interact with each other, and that influences how they live. Cultures are passed down from generation to generation through words, through expressive actions, and through things people make. The reason we use a word for this that was originally about caring for growing living things is because a culture includes the main ways that each generation helps to improve the lives of its children and those who come later in the future; each culture includes the best achievements of its people. There are so many cultures around the world because people in different parts of the world have to adapt to different things, thus develop different ways of living and different ideas which they follow.
Cultural relativism is the view that no culture is superior to any other culture when comparing systems of morality, law, politics, etc. The truth is that the truth is relative. Different cultures believe different things, find different things beautiful, and have different …show more content…
If you claim that there is a definite set of rules that denote what is good and/or bad, then you are being intolerant of other people’s beliefs. This can lead to imperialism, conflict, and maybe even worse: genocide. An example of this could be when the English were so convinced that their religion was the correct one. So much so to the point where they even sent missionaries that went into other countries and practically forced natives to practice a religion that they knew nothing about whether they agreed with it or