Cultural relativism Essay

Immigration Immigration is one of the biggest factors in why cultural relativism even exists. The surge of immigration to Westernized areas can be highly attributed to the increases in technology. Whole families can move from one area of the world to the other via plane or boat. Some families travel to other countries for job opportunities, for hope of a better future, or even to flee the circumstances they are enduring. When people immigrate to other lands, they carry their cultures with them…

As western culture progresses some odd concepts such as morality begin to lack definition. The death of God and globalization have opened many possibilities for the understanding and evolution of morality, particularly whether it is culturally relative or of some universal absolute (Nietzsche). By determining the root of morality as belief, and understanding that beliefs are culturally defined this essay will prove that morality is relative to culture. It will further go on to disprove any…

Cultural relativism consists of what is good and bad that is relative to the culture. In a way what is good if society approves the idea, but bad if one disapproves of the idea (Farias, 2015a). The culture in this case is the use of genetically modified organisms. Beginning with the people of Haiti, who burned the seeds Monsanto had given them. The activists in Haiti saw the seeds offered by Monsanto as poison, harming the health of their people. In their culture they saw seeds as life of the…

Benedict and Midgley The thesis of Benedict’s is that moral relativism is the correct view of the morality. Benedict’s claim that every culture is different from one another. Morality differs from every culture, that’s why what is moral to one culture can be immoral to another. Which culture is right is which one is wrong? it is part of the culture points of view, because if every culture has different standards or right and wrong then we cannot say which one is the one with the total truth.…

It stuck me when I read Moran, Harris, Moran (2011, p31) “You have to acknowledge cultural differences without becoming paralyzed by them.” I therefore started a corrective measure of learning to live with other cultures. At first I discovered that most of my problems were direct interpretation of situations in my culture, comparing it…

Morality is defined as principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior by the Oxford Dictionary. How do we decide if something is wrong or right? It is obvious morality differs from culture to culture, that being said which culture contains the right moral code? The death penalty is a topic that has debated over for decades, and currently legal in thirty-one out of fifty states in the United States. When the question of morality comes into play, the…

With today’s society become more and more opinionated on one’s own personal values and morals, it has now caused people to become very ethnocentric. Also, with many things persuading us to stand up and support our personal opinions, we as humans tend to become narrow minded and not welcome anyone else’s views without being judgemental right away. I think I can say that everyone has gone through this at least one time in their lifespan. Sometime in their life where they automatically closed off…

(iii) Dialogical Multiculturalism: This actually is different from the former two as it represents the practical level rather than the policy areas. This was primarily developed by Parekh (2000) who suggested “multiculturalism explains well how the cultural communities should relate to one another. It also prioritized that only the norms and values of different cultures within a given context cannot bring about peace and solidarity rather by creating an open and equal dialogue between the…

Bilingualism isn’t something that people should be making others have or taking away from others, people should choose to have or not have it. Of course many people have different ideas of what Bilingualism is. For Espada, he believes that people should not be made to be bilingual, or to lose their own culture. For Rodriguez, on the other hand, he believes that it is a lot more convenient to become bilingual with a public language like English. Even if somebody looses their private languages…

Ethnocentrism is judging another culture based upon the values and standards set in one's own culture. Though we may choose to deny it all we want, all of us are ethnocentric in some way shape or form, minus the handful of people who are in fact not ethnocentric. It is incredible how this planet is consists of so many different people belonging to different races or ethnicities. Color, language, culture, appearance, values are all factors that are fed upon by ethnocentric cultures or…