BLog 4

       The earth is a big ball of different cultures, and the challenge of relating to one another's culture is what causes conflict in our world. This problem is evident through out literature and is mainly responsible for the conflicts within. In The Power of One, Peekay was bullied by Judge and the other Nazi youth just because he was British. Judge and the others did not know Peekay but they were unable to relate to his culture and therefor abused him for it. Another example is from Things Fall Apart, as Okonkwo took his culture as the right culture compared to the Christian culture. As a result of his lack of Cultural Relativity he was unable to stop the spread of Christianity and eventually caused his own fall but if he respected the new culture things would have been peaceful. To fix this problem people need to enforce Cultural Relativity which is defined as "civilization is not something absolute, but ... is relative, and ... our ideas and conceptions are true only so far as our civilization goes," this means that our cultures reflect our society and our level of Cultural Relativity defines a society's civilization. A lack of Cultural Relativity is responsible for many wars on earth. Hitler felt the Jewish people's culture was inferior to his own and therefor he tried to force his "universal truth" onto them and he started WWII. Cultural Relativity is a challenge as the reading says because no one can completely agree with all cultures.
    I believe that Cultural Relativity is a necessary thing for all people to express in their lives, because a person can't have the same culture as everyone they meet, that's impossible. I also believe that all cultures should be acknowledged, now I'm not saying that we should accept them all but we should respect the fact that they are there and we can't change that. I agree with the benefits of Cultural Relativity as well. Cultural Relativity is a great thing because it brings a humbleness to one's culture and opens up a person's mind to other cultures. With Cultural Relativity I believe that we as a human race can better ourselves and come together as a species.