CULTURAL RELATIVISM ACTIVITY

Day 1 Activity: VOCABULARY

1. Relativism - the doctrine that knowledge, truth, and morality exist in
relation to culture, society, or historical context, and are not absolute.
the belief that there's no absolute truth, only the truths that a particular
individual or culture happens to believe.
2. Ethnocentrism – “thinking one's own group's ways are superior to
others" or "judging other groups as inferior to one's own"
3. Excision - Surgical removal, as in the excision of a tumor. The removal
as if by surgery, as in excision of a tumor; implying at least partial, if not
complete, removal.
4. Discrimination - the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different
categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or
sex.
5. Oppressed - subject to harsh and authoritarian treatment.
6. Dominance - power and influence over others.
7. Intervene - come between so as to prevent or alter a result or course of
events.
8. Context - the circumstances that form the setting for an event,
statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and
assessed.
9. Impure - morally wrong, especially in sexual matters.
10. Argument - an exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a
heated or angry one.

Day2 Activity:

Use the following words in a sentence. (see vocabulary in day 1 activity)