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cultural relativism

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Cultural relativism holds that beliefs and practices make sense within their own culture. Instead of judging them by outside standards, it aims to reduce ethnocentrism.

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The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights. Shirin Ebadi

Cultural relativism dictates that all cultures are equally moral and valuable-though in practice, Western culture is often presented as inferior to all others, stained as it supposedly is by racism and imperialism. Geert Wilders

Nations whose institutions promote cultural relativism and hate of the dominant culture have no business importing the sort of immigrant who'll be quick to act on an ideology of hate-be it the self-hate of the host, or the hate in Jihad. Ilana Mercer

What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid. Salman Rushdie

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