WEEK 3 (ETHNOCENTRISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM)

Activity sa Module na ilalagay sa notebook

• Learning task 1 pages 24-25

• Learning Task 2 pages 25-27
• Learning Task 3 pages 28-29
• Learning task 4 page 29
• Learning Task 7 page 30

Assignment Sa notebook ilalagay

1. Discuss and describe the evolution of Man.
Feature Tools used
Australopithecus
Homo habilis
Homo Erectus
Homo Neanderthalensis
Homo Sapiens Sapiens

2. Discuss and describe the cultural evolution

Cultural Period Time frame Cultural Development

Paleolithic
Mesolithic
Neolithic

Ethnocentrism

• A belief that one’s own culture is better than others.

• They tend to compare, evaluate and even judge other people’s way based on the values and
stands set in one’s own culture
• Their worldview is based on the beliefs, assumptions, expectation, and values shaped by one’s
language, behavior, custom , values, religions and other aspects

Sa Panahon ng pananakop ng Kastila

• Tinawag tayong barbaro (uncivilized) dahil nakita nila (Panahon nila Magellan At Miguel Lopez
de Legazpi) na wala ang mga sumusunod
• Malalaking Gusali
• Magagarang Kasuotan
• Walang relihiyon
• Walang magagarang sasakyan
Sa loob ng 300 taon ng Kastila sa Pilipinas
• Mababa pa rin ang tingin sa mga Pilipino sa kadahilanan
• Itsura
• Edukasyon
• Estado sa Lipunan
• Pinanganak sa kolonyang bansa
Sa Panahon ng pananakop ng Amerikano
• Katungkulan nila turuan at alagaan ng mga Pilipino, bakit?
• Kulang daw ang kaalaman sa Politika, Ekonomiya, Edukasyon atbp
• Hindi pa handa ang mga Pilipino na pamahalaan ang kanilang sarili
• Mababa pa rin ang tingin ng mga Amerikano, dahil sa…
• Itsura(kulay)
Epekto ng Ethnocentrism sa mga Pilipino
• Inferior Culture
• Manggagaya/ gaya gaya
• Local and imported phenomena
Cultural Relativism
• A belief that cultures are equally complex. There is no such thing as superior or inferior culture.
• the idea that all norms, beliefs, and values are dependent on their cultural context, and should
be treated as such.
• refers to the idea that the values, knowledge, and behavior of people must be understood
within their own cultural context.
• According to Franz Boas (1887), "...civilization is not something absolute, but ... is relative, and ...
our ideas and conceptions are true only so far as our civilization goes.“
• The very argument on this is that if the standard of right and wrong is relativism, then society
has no standards at all.

Two Categories of Cultural Relativism

Absolute
• Everything that happens within a culture must and should not be questioned by outsiders.
• Example
• Hindi pagkain ng baboy sa Muslim
• Pagligo ng Hapon.
Critical
• Questions about cultural practices are created in terms of who is accepting them and why. It
also recognizes power relationships.
• Example
• Cannibalism
• Human sacrifice