Cultural Relativism has been criticized for numerous reasons, both theoretical

and practical.
According to Karanack (2013), cultural relativism attempts to integrate
knowledge between one's own, culture-bound, reality. The premise that cultural
relativism is based on, that all cultures are valid in their customs, is, in
Karanack's view, vague.
Karanack also criticizes cultural relativism from a theoretical perspective for
having contradictory logic, asserting that cultural relativism often asserts that
social facts are true and untrue, depending on the culture that one is situated in.
Nonetheless, cultural relativism also has several advantages. Firstly, it is a system
that promotes cooperation. Each individual has a different perspective that is
based on their upbringing, experiences, and personal thoughts; and, by
embracing the many differences that people have, cooperation creates the
potential for a stronger society
. Each individual definition of success allows people to pursue stronger bonds
with one another and potentially achieve more because there are no limitations
on a group level about what can or cannot be accomplished (Karanack, 2013).
Secondly, cultural relativism envisions a society where equality across cultures is
possible. Cultural relativism does so by allowing individuals to define their moral
code without defining that of others. As each person can set their own standards
of success and behavior, cultural relativism creates equality (Karanack, 2013).
Additionally, Cultural relativism can preserve cultures and allow people to create
personal moral codes based on societal standards without precisely consulting
what is "right" or "wrong."
However, it can do so while also excluding moral relativism. This means that the
moral code of a culture can be defined and an expectation implemented that
people follow it, even as people devise goals and values that are particularly
relevant to them.
Lastly, cultural relativism has been praised for stopping cultural conditions — the
adoption for people to adapt their attitudes, thoughts, and beliefs to the people
they are with on a regular basis (Karanack, 2013).
Despite these advantages, cultural relativism has been criticized for creating a
system fuelled by personal bias. As people tend to prefer to be with others who
have similar thoughts, feelings, and ideas, they tend to separate themselves into
neighborhoods, communities, and social groups that share specific perspectives.
When people are given the power to define their own moral code, they do so
based on personal bias, causing some people to follow their own code at the
expense of others (Karanack, 2013).
Nonetheless, cultural relativism promotes understanding of cultures outside of
one’s own, enabling people to build relationships with other cultures that
acknowledge and respect each others’ diverse lives.
With cultural relativism comes an ability to understand a culture on its own
terms without making judgments based on one’s own cultural standards. In this
way, sociologists and anthropologists can draw more accurate conclusions about
outside cultures (Worthy, Lavigne, & Romero, 2020).
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Cultural relativism is the ability to understand a culture on its own terms and not to make
judgments using the standards of one’s own culture. The goal of this is promote
understanding of cultural practices that are not typically part of one’s own culture. Using
the perspective of cultural relativism leads to the view that no one culture is superior
than another culture when compared to systems of morality, law, politics, etc 1 .

It is a concept that cultural norms and values derive their meaning within a specific
social context. This is also based on the idea that there is no absolute standard of good
or evil; therefore, every decision and judgment of what is right and wrong is individually
decided in each society. The concept of cultural relativism also means that any opinion
on ethics is subject to the perspective of each person within their particular culture.
Overall, there is no right or wrong ethical system. In a holistic understanding of the term
cultural relativism, it tries to counter ethnocentrism by promoting the understanding of
cultural practices that are unfamiliar to other cultures such as eating insects, genocides
or genital cutting.
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Absolute cultural relativism is displayed in many cultures, especially Africa,

that practice female genital cutting. This procedure refers to the partial or total
removal of the external female genitalia or any other trauma to the female
reproductive/genital organs. By allowing this procedure to happen, females
are considered women and then are able to be married. FGC is practiced
mainly because of culture, religion and tradition. Outside cultures such as the
United States look down upon FGC as inhumane, but are unable to stop this
practice from happening because it is protected by its culture.
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