Monthly Blog-December

Cultural Relativism sounds like a great thing in theory but in practice I dont think it will work as well as everyone hopes. Basically the idea of not judging other cultures is a good thing because then people would really have no reason to hate each other. Cultural Relativism shows that different cultures have different views on similiar issues. Take the Callatians and the Greeks for example. The Callatians believe in eating their dead fathers while the Greeks believe in burning their dead. King Darius did an experiment to introduce the two cultures to the other ritual. It turned out that each group of people was disgusted in the other culture's practice. This experiement shows how what you see in your own culture as acceptable, someone raised differently than you may see it as crazy or disgusting. This can be viewed as a good or bad thing. On one hand, cultural relativism proves that judging other cultures is a bad thing because it was just how they were raised and is viewed as acceptable in their society. On the other hand, not judging cultures on their social behavior doesn't only include different things they eat for example. It includes other practices such as taking slaves or abusing women. It can be hard to look at things that you morally think is wrong, and not judge the people based on your own views. This is why I beleive that it's good to know about other cultures but I think that just knowing won't really stop people from judging other cultures.