Cultural relativism Essay

As I compare myself to my 65 year-old father, I have noticed some striking differences based on our generations, a type of birth cohort which is named and typified. My father is a part of the Baby Boomers generation who benefits the greatest financially, where that generation is most affluent, whereas the millennials are the poorest because we are inheriting all the debt from older generations. I think it is interesting to see how the brain thinks differently between a younger and older…

Du Huailiang: Adultery That Brought Disaster At the end of the case of “Du Huailiang: Adultery That Brought Disaster,” two characters are punished. The murder Du Huailiang was beheaded even though his paramour Ms. Li was strangled. Why did Ms. Li receive this particular punishment although she did not partake in the crime itself? The answer is simple: Ms. Li committed adultery, a crime which was considered immoral during Qing Dynasty. Today, people are likely to believe that Ms. Li’s sentencing…

How the movie The Anthropologist applies to what we learned about the new and old ways that we've have approached and done ethnographies in old methods and new methods can be seen throughout the movie in the ways that the main anthropologist functioned in all the places that she traveled. One of the “old school ethnography” methods that I could see within the movie that was being displayed was Historical Particularism which is creating a understanding of their history before deep immersion into…

In their article in the New York Times, Todd Buchholz and Victoria Buchholz argue that Americans are somehow failing as a group. The so-called "Generation Y" is becoming complacent, not working toward making their lives (and the country) better off. The article is certainly intended to capture its audience's attention, with the title "The Go-Nowhere Generation. In it, they use hard data from the Pew Research Center and studies conducted at universities, among others. More interestingly, perhaps,…

debate and attempts to pin down a definition of multiculturalism. However, in my personal experience, multiculturalism is not the norm in America. Minority groups face unconscious assimilation on a daily basis. Article: U.S. Multiculturalism or Cultural Assimilation? Description: Discusses how the recently past field of Republican presidential candidates have advocated intolerance…

According to the Cambridge dictionary, cultural appropriation is the act of taking or using things from a culture that is not your own, especially without showing that you understand or respect this culture. Andy Pratt’s “Cultural appropriation: theft or fair exchange?”published on April 10, 2017, in the Conversation shows that the multinational company Nike inappropriately designs the burkini a religious dress of Islamic religions as swimwear. Pratt explains that burkini is not simply a piece…

My father, a chef who now lives in Australia, as a child witnessed when the movement began. It was around the time we had just begun kindergarten when the cultural revolution broke out. I was very young back then. We didn’t understand what was happening. One day it was fine, the next everyone suddenly turned into enemies. The middle school on the street near us became a nightmare. Students would drag the teachers and elderly out into the streets and beat them. They gave propaganda speeches about…

communist China. The cultural revolution is underway and Ji-Li’s life is starting to fall apart. Throughout the book, Ji-Li's perspective changes as she takes on more and more responsibilities for her family. Red Scarf Girl is voiced by the main character, Ji-Li Jiang, who is 12 years old and lives in Shanghai, China. She is an outstanding student, as well as her family is wealthy. She has everything students want. However, her life begins to crash when Chairman Mao launched the Cultural…

The field of Anthropology is a robust and eclectic field of study that covers virtually all aspects of human existence, but focuses on social and cultural development. Its scope extends from the analysis of the oldest fossil records, tools, artifacts and evidences of society and culture to tell us hopefully the complete story of humanity. In recent years, the field has undoubtedly been reshaped as it adapts to the changes in advancements of technology and scientific instruments, which have…

Sociocultural changes are visible throughout Canada as we are a diversified country supporting many different beliefs, values, cultural and social factors. With the focus on many different beliefs and values throughout my community from past to present time it is evident that sociocultural changes are always in motion. As a child growing up in a small rural town there were very few single parent household, same sex marriages, and limited ethnic diversity in comparison to the historical Caucasian…