Cultural relativism offers an opportunity for a panoramic comprehension and appreciation of cultures as if they were your own. Understanding cultures other than your own can be viewed in fashion similar to solving the puzzle known as the Rubix cube. The array of assorted colors signifies misconceptions, misunderstandings, and the mistakes of not being willing, or able to identify with societies other than one 's own. This can be due to observing one’s own culture with preeminence, or ethnocentrism.
Solving a Rubix cube and being perceptive of other cultures can be methodically solved in the same manner. While being hands-on, they must both be studied and examined from all possible viewpoints and angles before they can truly be, and ultimately …show more content…
Miner (1956) and his article, called the Body Ritual of the Nacirema, inadvertantly causes the reader to inspect an aspect of their own culture without their knowledge, giving them a raw view of a culture that they may have viewed as superior, due to ethnocentrism. Crapo (2013) states that "an outsider 's alleged account creates a model of a culture by using cross a culturally valid categories" (p. 27). The choice to pursue infidelity and the decision to divorce in America may seem quite uncouth to those cultures that are on the outside or quite normal to those who are in this …show more content…
Although this fact seems random, it is pertinent. According to Campbell and Wright (2010), in the 1960’s, 80% of American women stayed home instead of being in the workforce, leaving the men of the household to be the financial back bones of the home. According to the United States Department of Labor, the amount of mothers that work and also rear children is at a whopping 70.5% as of 2012. As women are finding themselves more financially stable and able to fully support themselves, and possibly children, on their own, the ability to leave an unhappy matrimony is
Solving a Rubix cube and being perceptive of other cultures can be methodically solved in the same manner. While being hands-on, they must both be studied and examined from all possible viewpoints and angles before they can truly be, and ultimately …show more content…
Miner (1956) and his article, called the Body Ritual of the Nacirema, inadvertantly causes the reader to inspect an aspect of their own culture without their knowledge, giving them a raw view of a culture that they may have viewed as superior, due to ethnocentrism. Crapo (2013) states that "an outsider 's alleged account creates a model of a culture by using cross a culturally valid categories" (p. 27). The choice to pursue infidelity and the decision to divorce in America may seem quite uncouth to those cultures that are on the outside or quite normal to those who are in this …show more content…
Although this fact seems random, it is pertinent. According to Campbell and Wright (2010), in the 1960’s, 80% of American women stayed home instead of being in the workforce, leaving the men of the household to be the financial back bones of the home. According to the United States Department of Labor, the amount of mothers that work and also rear children is at a whopping 70.5% as of 2012. As women are finding themselves more financially stable and able to fully support themselves, and possibly children, on their own, the ability to leave an unhappy matrimony is