ETHNOCENTRISM/CULTURAL RELATIVISM

Reduction of Ethnocentrism and Promotion of Cultural Relativism



Reduction of Ethnocentrism and Promotion of Cultural Relativism

Introduction

The concept of ethnocentrism refers to a collective attitude that divorce is the cultural forms, whether they are moral, religious, social, aesthetic, those are far from their own. The barbarian, savage, are metaphors for the rejection of the cultural diversity and all that does not follow the norms of society which employs them. Cultural relativism advocates that all cultural systems are naturally equal in value and that the attributes that characterize a culture should be measured and explained in the system to which they belong. ...