Topic > Ethnocentrism in my culture - 769

74). This means judging another culture based on the values ​​and standards of your own culture. However, cultural relativism means understanding the values ​​and beliefs of a culture and not judging them. Stein and Ferris (2016) defined cultural relativism as “understanding a culture on its own terms” (p. 74). When I think back to my first trip to Mexico, I remember a time when I was ethnocentric at an open-air meat market. That evening I was out with my parents picking out items for dinner. When we asked for a couple of kilos of chicken, the butcher only takes a couple of chickens from the cage; we killed and cleaned them right in front of us. I immediately was disgusted and thought to myself "Why didn't they process the chicken properly?" In the society where every culture is different, I don't think it is really possible to be culturally relative because it is our natural response to criticize or react to a certain way of life that is different from ours. I can't remember a time when something new was opened up to me and in no way was I not judging