Ethnocentrism refers to judging other cultures based on our own cultural standards. The culture which a person belongs to is centered. Other cultures rotate towards it with a sense of inferiority.Xenocentrism and culture relativism both lay at the extremities of ethnocentrism. What could an excess of each cause? Are we limited to any international standard? Is any culture prone to extinction due to any of those concepts? Are we rendering our own cultures isolated and drifting towards belonging to different culture that is more brourjois and well set in place?
Why do we feel awfully affiliated with other cultures? Why are we lured into their divergent multi-potent, outrageous customs and traditions? Is it that we find in them what is lacking …show more content…
In fact, society needs moral standards as it needs language. Actually, no moral system is better than another, just as there is no possible method to know which of many languages is better. But, also, within any given language there are grammatical and spelling rules. This is why we can say that morality is the social, grammatical, and spelling rules that permit a group of people to get along with each other within the same group. However, this leads to another drawback of cultural relativism. In fact, asserting something is right doesn’t make it right. What a society believes about morals might be at odds with what is really true, and those who set the moral code may be mistaken. Many societies may accept the mistreatment of women .For instance, in 2007, a woman in Saudi Arabia complained to the police due to the fact that she was gang-raped. Nevertheless, in the course of their investigation, the police discovered that she had been living with a man to whom she was not related .They accused her of committing a crime and sentenced her 90 lashes. When she appealed her conviction, the judges got mad at her, and they increased her sentence to 200 lashes and a six-month prison term. Eventually, although the Saudi king pardoned her, he affirmed that he supported the punishment she had received. Thus we can deduce that societies commit and support injustices and discriminations, and many of them must be in need of moral improvement. This makes us rethink what cultural Relativism states, and that is that societies are morally infallible, meaning that the morals of a culture are always
Why do we feel awfully affiliated with other cultures? Why are we lured into their divergent multi-potent, outrageous customs and traditions? Is it that we find in them what is lacking …show more content…
In fact, society needs moral standards as it needs language. Actually, no moral system is better than another, just as there is no possible method to know which of many languages is better. But, also, within any given language there are grammatical and spelling rules. This is why we can say that morality is the social, grammatical, and spelling rules that permit a group of people to get along with each other within the same group. However, this leads to another drawback of cultural relativism. In fact, asserting something is right doesn’t make it right. What a society believes about morals might be at odds with what is really true, and those who set the moral code may be mistaken. Many societies may accept the mistreatment of women .For instance, in 2007, a woman in Saudi Arabia complained to the police due to the fact that she was gang-raped. Nevertheless, in the course of their investigation, the police discovered that she had been living with a man to whom she was not related .They accused her of committing a crime and sentenced her 90 lashes. When she appealed her conviction, the judges got mad at her, and they increased her sentence to 200 lashes and a six-month prison term. Eventually, although the Saudi king pardoned her, he affirmed that he supported the punishment she had received. Thus we can deduce that societies commit and support injustices and discriminations, and many of them must be in need of moral improvement. This makes us rethink what cultural Relativism states, and that is that societies are morally infallible, meaning that the morals of a culture are always