Cultural Relativisn
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ANTHROPOLOGY
HUMAN RIGHTS AND CULTURAL RELATIVITY
Human rights is something every person is entitled to by virtue of their being human. It is an entitlement, something you have without deserving or earning it. It is yours because you are a human being. If it is a right for you, it is a right for everyone else. It is the basic right and freedom to which all women and men are entitled - among them the right to life, liberty and nationality, to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, to work, to be educated, to take part in government.
Cultural Relativity is the anthropological attitude that a society's customs, traditions and ideas are to be described in an objective perspective in context of the society's problem. In other words, it says that we should judge the actions of a society in context to the society's traditions and customs. The basic premise of cultural relativism is that beliefs, values, and morals are all based on one's culture. It is an ideology that all beliefs are equally valid, and that none can be considered inferior or wrong. All ethical, religious and political truths are relative to the cultural identity of the individual...