Anthropologists who take cultural relativism too literally or too its logical extreme, can conclude that ______.
a. absolutely no behavior found in the world would be immoral based on that cultures beliefs or morality
b. all moral practices are viewed as equivalent
c. all must give up their own culture or practices
d. all cultures would have to be required to like or approve the other culture practices
e. all cultures should be required to give up trying to understand human behavior in its myriad forms
Question 2
The anthropological attitude that a societys customs and ideas should be viewed in the context of its own culture is called _____.
a. cultural relativism
b. the etic approach
c. the emic approach
d. ethnocentrism
e. holism
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