Author Question: Female genital cutting has produced a. major tensions between rich and poor countries that have ... (Read 29 times)

lunatika · **on:** Sep 4, 2018

Female genital cutting has produced

a. major tensions between rich and poor countries that have spinoff effects on other issues such as trade and international violence.
b. links in the minds of most people between that practice and others such as cosmetic surgeries and male circumcision.
c. differences between people who view it as a human rights issue and those who think it is a cultural practice defining virtuous women.
d. its occurrence during ethnic-based warfare when one side's combatants attempt to undermine their enemies' will to fight.
e. laws banning the practice in the countries that are members of the United Nations and its related agencies.

Question 2

Some people think the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is ethnocentric for all of the following reasons except

a. in claiming to be universal, it actually reflects Western definitions of human rights.
b. some societies have legally codified differences based on cultural categories such as ethnicity and gender.
c. they see the West as hypocritical; for example, the U.S. death penalty and restrictions on the clothing of Muslim school girls in France.
d. the legacy of colonialism causes many in developing countries to respond negatively to actions they see as initiated by former colonial powers.
e. they reject the existence of a general agreement that all people should be able to live healthy and productive lives without unreasonable discrimination.