Cultural Relativism In A Multicultural World By Rosado Summary

The concept of cultural relativism in a multicultural world by Caleb Rosado. 1. I find it interesting that the author points out that ethnocentrism “implies the failure to view reality from the perspective of the other” (Rosado 4). I believe that sometimes people incontinently fail to see reality in a different perspective because they cannot understand the manner that other people see reality. It is not even because they repudiate the way other people see things but because it is difficult for them to find a logic or coherent explanation about why others perceive realities the way they do. I can tell from past experiences that even people that respect other’s people perception of reality sometimes fail to understand why others

The author additionally says that the failure mentioned above is one of the causes why ethicists have difficulties with cultural relativism (Rosado 4). I agree with the author that ethicists have problems with cultural relativism based on experiences that I had in the past. I remember taking a course with a great professor who used to mention the custom of having multiple wives as something wrong. For this professor, the concept of having more than one wife and a man cheating on his wife was the same thing. For me and some other college students with whom I shared background, the practice of a man having multiple wives was normal and acceptable. Hence, every time someone in class including the teacher included this practice in the category of things that were wrong, the students with whom I share the same background and I kept quiet because we did not see the awful thing that they saw in this practice.
Confession of a former cultural relativist by Henry H. Bagish 3. I agree with the author’s point that it is important to acknowledge that some ways of doing things by some cultures are more efficient