WMNST 105N Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Relativism, Burqa, Ethnocentrism
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Lesson 2: why race, class and gender still matter. Demonstrate the difference between cultural relativism and ethnocentrism. Define the american dream and explain why it is a myth. Demonstrate how to be culturally sensitive while remaining morally centered. The welcoming acceptance of all people and the allowance of their identities and cultures to be openly practiced. People in other cultures and communities view and experience family, marriage, religion, work, and education differently than you yourself do. A relative worthiness of ways of life. A methodological approach to studying cultures that differ from our own. Other ways of thinking, acting, and feeling are just as valid as our own. We should not view different as inferior. Opinion that moral standards, values, manners, knowledge and history of one"s own culture are superior to those of other people. Perspective that the whole world revolves around your understanding of it.
