Cultural Relativism (Polygamy)
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
The idea of cultural relativism started from the society. From the society it turns out to be a symbol of that particular area and become mass/universal. According to Rachel (p.18) says " These customs cannot be said to be "correct" or incorrect, "for that implies that we have an independent standard of right and wrong by which they may judge". In a simple word cultural relativism is there is no answer for what is right and what is wrong, to judge this issue we have to know who are these people who belief this issue is right or acceptable. I will bring the example cultural relativism of "polygamy". Based on Merriam-Webster Dictionary polygamy is a marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time. A cultural relativist living in Non-Moslem countries would be against in "polygamy"; while cultural relativist on the Moslem countries would be legally acceptable by their culture. When a society deems that this is right, it......
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