Cultural relativism is a process involving the examining and understanding of a culture‚ /different from your own‚ without discrediting their beliefs. Understanding differing cultural beliefs can be acquired by considering functions of practices‚ behaviors‚ symbols‚ traditions‚ and morals within a society. The initial concept of cultural relativism was created to turn people away from ethnocentrism‚ which is the belief that your cultures beliefs are authentic and all other cultures beliefs are
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Young project Director) Their initial concept for the new museum’s structure consisted of three parallel bars that extended into the lush landscape. Their design was an elegant‚ restrained and aesthetically cautious idea for the new building. In context of the park itself‚ their design dissolved the boundaries between the inside and the outside of the landscape. The monolithic roof with its horizontal form was proposed in order to unify the buildings interior‚ at the same time anchoring it firmly
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between Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism The world today consists of an incalculable number of societies. Each society varies significantly in the different elements of culture. Culture is one’s designed way of living based on erudite customs‚ knowledge‚ material items‚ and behavior. Within every society today lives an ethnocentric attitude. The belief that ones own culture is superior to that of another’s. However‚ it is important to develop a sense of cultural relativism in today’s society
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CULTURAL COMPETENCY Cultural competency is communicating and accepting everyone with no cultural barriers • Ensuring that the everyone the setting are aware of their own culture and have a clear view about other cultures • Ensuring that everyone has a positive attitude towards other cultures and belief. • Ensuring that everyone in the settings has a good knowledge about the different cultural practices across the world. • Ensuring everyone are skilled in communicating and interacting with people
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York College‚ City University of New York - Program in Cultural Diversity Fall 2010 ASSIGNMENT ONE: ‘SHOW-N-TELL’ AND CULTURAL MONOLOGUE (10 points) For this Assignment‚ each student will undertake the following: PART 1: Artifact Presentation (Show and Tell): You are expected to bring in some special material object (artifact) that is representative of your culture (T-shirts‚ baseball caps‚ passports‚ currency‚ miniature flags‚ coffee mugs‚ key-ring holders‚ music CDs‚ DVDs
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Cultural Relativism Introduction According to www.gotquestions.org/cultural-relavitsim‚ cultural relativism is the view that all beliefs‚ customs‚ and ethics are related to the social norms and culture that one comes from. In other words‚ right and wrong or good and bad are culture-specific‚ meaning that what is reflected moral in one society may be reflected immoral in another. Therefore‚ since no collective standard of morality subsists‚ no one has the right to judge another society’s customs
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Introduction and Background After finished the second public consultation on the three models (City Park‚ Cultural Connect and Project for a New Dimension)‚ West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) project arouse public’s attention again. It was first announced by Tung Chee-hwa in 1998 to develop Hong Kong as the cultural hub in Asia with world-class facilities inside the district including theatres‚ performance venues‚ museums‚ exhibition centers and piazzas. However‚ after the first public consultation
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Little Rain” that depicts death valley and the surrounding desert. The landscape of the story is no doubt a desert; sand dunes‚ small shrubs‚ will grass‚ blistering heat‚ scavengers and very little water. Although the desert can be easily described‚ Austin goes to great lengths to show the relationships between the subtle changes in the landscape‚ behavioral patterns of animals‚ and even the way plant life grows around the landscape. For example‚ she describes and almost personifies the way that the
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Cultural Relativism is a perspective that moral codes vary from culture to culture‚ no moral code within in a culture is superior to the other codes in different cultures; This ideology comes from that there is no universal truth‚ meaning there is no philosophical standard that determines if something is either right or wrong‚ therefore one cannot establish that something is “better.” In “The Challenge of Cultural Relativism‚” James Rachels introduces the topic by introducing Darius whom is a king
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9/30/14 MRA: “The Challenge of Cultural Relativism” In the text "The Challenge of Cultural Relativism‚" James Rachels breaks down and discusses the theory of Cultural Relativism by presenting the pros and cons of this theory. He exposes some of the shortcomings of the theory arguing that some of the claims are wrong and contradictory. The theory of Cultural Relativism states that “there is no such thing as universal truth in ethics; there are only the various cultural codes.” In other words‚ the
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