10. Cultural Relativism
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Cultural Relativism expresses that each culture has there own values and traditions and should not be judged based upon them. Cultural Relativism discusses that we should not judge each other based on our own cultural differences because what might be right in one culture might be wrong in another. With the idea of Cultural Relativism one should understand and accept one another's beliefs and activities no matter what culture they are apart of because no one culture is superior to another. People's cultures can have different ways of eating, thinking, dressing, behaving, and different daily lifestyles. For example, the Aztecs believed in human sacrifice, to us that seems immoral but to them at the time was the normal thing to do.
Sources
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Cultural_relativism.aspx
http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/cultural-relativism.htm
Class Notes
For more information go to: http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/cultural-relativism.htm
By: Cross Kennedy
