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Written Task 1 (Culture and Ethics)

Name: _____________________________________________________ Year/Section_______

Write TRUE or FALSE on the space provided. (10 points)

______________1. Culture is the written shared values norms, beliefs and ideas of the people.
______________2. Culture is naturally and automatically acquired.
______________3. Ethics implies the theory of right and wrong good and bad
______________4. Colonial mentality is an example of ethnocentrism
______________5. Xenocentrism is good because it values humility
______________6. Cultural relativism is the counter concept of ethnocentrism
______________7. No human cultures are perfect
______________8. Cultural relativism adheres “there is no absolute truth”
______________9. Ethics is based on reason while morality is based on tradition
______________10. Morality and culture are relative

Read the following passage.

A couple of years ago Annette Sorensen 30 an actress from Copenhagen Denmark, and Exavier Wardlaw
49, a movie production assistant from Brooklyn NY, were arrested for leaving their 14-month-old-daughter outside
a Manhattan restaurant on a chilly day while they ate inside the restaurant. They left in her baby carriage on the
side walk. Many passers-by called 911 to alert the police. New York authorities away from Sorenseen and Wardlaw
and temporarily placed her in foster care.

In an ensuing article in the New Yok Times one Danish commentator stated that leaving a baby outside a
restaurant is a very common practice in Denmark. The commentator wrote “often Danish parents leave their babies
outside. For one thing Danish baby carriages are enormous. Babies ride high above the world on horse-carriage-
size wheels, its hard to get such a carriage into a café. Besides Danish cafes are very smoky places. “The
commentator continued in Denmark, people have an almost religious conviction that fresh air, preferably cold air; is
good for children. All Danish babies nap outside even in freezing weather- tucked warmly under their plum goose-
down comforters. In Denmark, all children own a sort of polar survival suit that they wear from October to April,
and they go out every day, even in winter.

1. Is the act of the couple reasonable? (10 points)

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2. How does their culture influence their behavior? (10 points)
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