AN101 Lecture Notes - Consumerism, Sustainable Agriculture
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Shouldn"t we also try to educate other culture with our views of the world, especially those that lack advanced technology or revolve their lives around mystical beliefs: no, unless they want to be taught, ethnocentric question. Telling them that ours is the best way of living life they are basically saying that their way of living is wrong. As much as we want to respect their way of life, i can"t help but think that cultures that don"t accept a scientific mindset are suffering from a lack of advancement. Anthropology: seeks to open you to a new perspective that challenges commonly taken for granted assumptions. Is the scientists beliefs free: both are no because they come from their own culture and have their own beliefs they have their own vision of making sense of the world. We could dismiss shamanism as a mystical belief", since it does not have many western scientific medicine.
