Examples Of Cultural Ethnocentrism

Throughout the world there are many different types of societies and cultures that have completely different ways of life. Throughout these cultures they have their own beliefs, values and morals. Many of the practices that certain cultures participate in are very controversial around the world. People are torn between seeing these topics in cultural relativist ways VS. ethnocentric ways and they question whether to see it as just a part of the cultural or a human rights violation. Each day around 350,000 babies are born into the world. While some have the possibility to be great and live a prosperous life, others are not even given the chance to have their first birthday. This unfortunately does occur today and is known as infanticide. This Infanticide is the killing of babies and is seen mostly in India and China but is also occurs in afghanistan, South Korea, …show more content…
Instead people should view the different cultural practices with an ethnocentric way which mean that people would view the other culture as abnormal or inferior. When a human rights violation is occurring and someone or something is being harmed it is crucial that people do view it with an ethnocentric approach and speak out against these injustices.
In this case with infanticide it is critical for the future of the female population and for the babies enduring it right now that people step in and speak out against the wrongful killing of innocent baby girls. If parents continue to kill their female babies than males will quickly outnumber females. China and India alone account for as much as 37% of the world's population, so if these two countries continue to kill females than the future for them does not look bright. People need to stop this “Gendercide” as ***** calls it because people do not want to see females on the endangered species