Renz Jaztine R.
Alcazar Advantages Disadvantages
Cultural Relativism The advantages of Cultural
Relativism are:
1. It promotes appreciation of
the cultures even if there are
differences.
2. Through Cultural Relativism
we can say that there is equality.
3. It also implies that we need to
respect other culture and we
should set aside the comparison
or our judgements in terms of
how other culture live.
4. It preserves our culture
because no one interferes the
culture of each other.
Ethnocentrism The advantages of
Ethnocentrism are:
1. It promotes social change
wherein because of judgements,
the culture was being improved.
In short, the culture has not
changed but just improve.
2. It can bring solidarity because
there would be interactions with
people which shares their
knowledge on how to improve
their society. In short, because
of ethnocentrism their society
will bring more progress than
before.
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The disadvantages of Cultural
Relativism are:
1. It promote lack of diversity
because we are just focusing on
our point of view within other
culture.
2. Since judgements are not
being used in Cultural
Relativism, it can limit the
progress of humanity. We would
no longer have the ability to
effectively compare different
societies to chart away toward
the future.
3. In cultural relativism, there
will be no improvements in
culture since there are no
judgements.
The disadvantages of
Ethnocentrism are:
1. It promotes judging in a way
we compare our culture to
other. We all know that we
should avoid judging other
people especially on their
culture because it may give
affections on their life. It may
lead them to change from what
they love.
2. It includes the superiority and
inferiority of a culture from
other culture. In cultural
superiority, it suggests that
whatever “we” do is always
better than what other cultures
do and when we judge other
cultures, we rely solely on our
own values which is not good
since we compare it. We should
focus on what we have instead
of naming it as superior than
other.