the Nacirema Culture Ethnocentrism is defined as a belief that one’s own culture is superior. This article uses metaphors’ to describe our own well to do American society. As we read the article we automatically judge and think that the Nacirema’s are barbaric people who seem very uneducated and masochistic‚ when in fact we follow the same practices. As we read this article‚ we see the Nacirema as a masochistic culture which gave their possessions for the chance to be treated with rituals they
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Subjectivism and Cultural Relativism have many short comings that would be less useful in dealing with a social contract like this. These short comings would make using these beliefs useless and in some case reinforce the social contract of this kind of society. Subjectivism
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ultimately subjective‚ as our perceptions of cultural differences are shaped largely by our immersion in our own culture. An ethnocentric approach stems from judging an alternate culture in relation to one’s own pre-conceived cultural values‚ held to be superior; the parallax phenomenon‚ the inability to escape our own biases‚ prevents objective analysis of different cultures. A cultural relativist maintains the post-modernist view that there is no moral or cultural high-ground with which to judge one culture
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parent country: Parent Country Nationals(PNC) Ethnocentric Approach Host Country Nationals(HCN) Polycentric Approach Third Country Nationals(TCN) Re-Geocentric & Geocentric The Ethnocentric Staffing Policy: Few foreign subsidiaries have an autonomy and strategic decisions are made at the headquarters. Key positions in domestic and foreign operations are held by headquarters personnel. Subsidiaries are managed by staff from the home country. The ethnocentric staffing policy refers to the strategy of
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Issues Today: Universalism vs. Cultural Relativism One of the most pertinent issues of the past twenty years has been the conflict between two different ideologies of human rights on a national scale‚ universalism‚ and cultural relativism. Universalism holds that more “primitive” cultures will eventually evolve to have the same system of law and rights as Western cultures. Cultural relativists hold an opposite‚ but similarly rigid viewpoint‚ that a traditional culture is unchangeable. In universalism
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Moxa Patel Nacirema Case Paper Managing Global Diversity – HRM 582 June 2‚ 2013 The Nacirema case study reminds us how cultural rituals were many years ago and how some of them are still existing today. The Nacirema tribe has many unconventional practices of how they live day to day. From the article “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema‚” it is clear that they believe their bodies are not attractive and should not be presented in a promiscuous way. Professor Linton documented the North American
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Ethnocentric staffing approach Word number:973 Executive summary In today’s global world Human Resource (HR) practices and polices have become very significant for further development of multinationals organizations. In order for multinationals companies to be competitive‚ it is necessary to have adequate international staffing approach. Management of employees in foreign subsidiary is a complex job. Nevertheless‚ Human Resource managers need to manage people across
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monocultural ethnocentric approach is not effective. For example‚ Sue & Sue (2013) believe that because most therapist are trained to use the Western approach they lack expertise in working with culturally diverse clients. Also many of these counseling theories do not work for culturally diverse clients because they go against their beliefs and values. Therefore‚ it can be concluded that Western counseling theories can be oppressive in nature‚ and have the tendency to oppress diverse cultural groups.
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questioned with lack of knowledge‚ just as if any other scholarly subject wasn’t studied such as math or English. Albert Camus once stated‚ “A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.” According to Benedict’s “A Defense of Moral Relativism‚” every culture has to draw a line between what is normal and what is abnormal. The line between normality and abnormality has to be distinguished in order to understand others in that same culture. For example‚ noises that people in American culture
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In "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" Miner is ridiculing how much society cares about their appearance. He talks about the unnecessary rituals that we go through just to please society. An example the author uses is how people are never pleased with what they have. Everyone is trying to fit in with what society thinks is right. Since society has its own perception of what is beautiful women try and do whatever it takes to fit into that definition. This is why women get breast implants or breast
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