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A cultural schema is
A detailed plan of how a culture reacts to certain things
A feeling for what is right or wrong in a culture
A distaste for some aspects of a culture
Knowledge of another culture
One meaning of culture is
things like cinema and painting
Music from a certain place
all of these
the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society
Is ethnocentrism
positive
negative
not necessarily either
Some people believe ethnocentrism becomes negative when someone believes
you are entitled to hurt people who are not from your culture group
it's ok to be wrapped up only in their own culture
the values, beliefs, ideas and practices of one's own culture are the best, the most valid, the most natural, the most human
The British took over control of other countries using the excuse that
the other countries were not capable of ruling themselves
the other countries were barbarous and needed to be protected from themselves.
the people of the other nations were not Christian and needed to be converted
all of these
The Chinese emperor believed he possessed
very big armies
the yin yang
the mandate of heaven
a natural right to rule
This meant his power to rule was
part of a social contract
divinely granted, but negotiable
granted by vote
divinely granted and absolute
An extreme form of ethnocentrism has led to
genocide
war
discrimination
all of these
Othering refers to
liking other people
hating everyone equally
thinking one group is alien to you
discriminating
Cultural relativism regards
all cultural traditions as having some reason behind them
everything another culture doe to be correct
that some cultural ideas are intrinsically better than others
that some cultural ideas are intrinsically worse that others
Does cultural intelligence require you to give up your own ideas about right and wrong?
Yes
No
Why can being non-judgmental help you achieve your aims?
you will get into fewer fights
people are likely to reciprocate when the feel respected
people will believe you are like them
it won't
What are the two types of relativism that Anthropologists talk about
moral
cultural
methodological
social
Culture shock can come because of
being in a different country
being unable to answer questions
seeing different traditions that are unnaceptable
doubts about the right way to behave
Thinking another culture is superior to your won is called
Xenocentrism
Cultural Relativism
Xenophobia
Hippiness
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