Read over the content(see the attachment), then discuss how understanding cultural relativism and cultural universals can help reduce ethnocentrism. (One brief paragraph [3-4 sentences]for 2.0 points...

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Read over the content(see the attachment), then discuss how understanding cultural relativism and cultural universals can help reduce ethnocentrism. (One brief paragraph [3-4 sentences]for 2.0 points and one brief paragraph [3-4sentences]
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I believe that understanding cultural relativism and cultural universals can help us reduce ethnocentrism by helping us realize that our own culture is not superior to another. Instead of judging another culture for what they like to eat, for example, we should try to understand why do they eat it. It is not fair to think that our way is the only correct way to function. There are different cultures all over the world with people growing up in different conditions than us and they have had to adapt to their particular circunstances.


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Hi,I liked the simple example you used to explain how our thought process should be. Instead of judging for no reason we should be evaluating trying to understand and learn from other cultures and use their adaptations from over the years to help further develop in the future.





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Refer to the content(attachment) explain how the way in which we learn about the Scientific Method in college


instruction surpasses the way in which we learned about the Scientific Method in high school. Write one brief paragraph


(3-4 sentences).

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Title: Understanding Cultural Relativism and Cultural Universals
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    Cultural relativism refers to the understanding that cultures should be arbitrated in relationto their own explicit adaptive necessities in their specific environments. On the other hand, cultural universals are something that all humans share because all humans have the similar necessities for existence for belief systems, and for both political and kinship systems. Functionally, assorted traits as means of passage, dancing and jesting are shared by human cultures. While coming across lifestyles of other cultures, humans experience cultural shock and ethnocentrism in spite of cultural universals. However, reducing of ethnocentrism can happen with the understanding of anthropology’s cultural relativism and also cultural universals because the need for survival of every human being is the same no matter wherever they are, and whichever culturethey follow (Spiro). Also, understanding different cultures followed by different people and not judging them will help in reducing ethnocentrism because it teaches humans not to think that they are superior of others due to...
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