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Understanding Cultural Relativism by Gatita Andrea is a document available to read on EtoBox.

Cultural relativism holds that values and moral standards are relative to the particular culture or society from which they emerge, rather than being universal. It challenges the idea that one can pass judgment on other cultures from an outside perspective. However, cultural relativism does not mean that "anything goes"; it recognizes that certain moral standards like prohibitions against harming others may be nearly universal across societies. Ethnocentrism is the opposite view, where one judges other cult

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Gatita Andrea

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