The document discusses the influence of foreign culture on the traditional cultures of Papua New Guinea. As more youth move to towns, they are exposed to outside influences through consumable goods, dress, and language. This has disadvantages like forgetting their indigenous languages and traditions. The document recommends strengthening cultural institutions and parental responsibility to preserve traditional Papua New Guinean culture.
ELECTIVE 1 MULTICULTURAL GROUP 1
This is a compilation of the reports made by group 1 about what is culture, its components and the Filipino culture.
---USEP CED-BSED TLE 3
Essay on Cultural Globalization
Essay My Personal Culture
Essay about Culture Clash
Essay Human Culture
Essay about Understanding Culture
Essay about Cultural Experience
Running Head ETHNOCENTRISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM .docxjeanettehully
Running Head: ETHNOCENTRISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM 1
ETHNOCENTRISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM 7
Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism
Student Name: Oluwakemi Aina
Instructor’s Name: Dr. La Tonya Scott
01/16/2020
Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism
Ethnocentrism is considered as the propensity to look at the world through the lens of one’s individual culture. This means that people will judge the beliefs, behaviors, customs, and attitudes based on their own cultural patterns. Culture includes ideas, customs, and social behavior of a given group of people or society. It is the characteristics of a given group of people that is defined by social habits, language, beliefs, customs, laws, religion, etc. The aspect of ethnocentrism is considered to take place mostly because people have the highest information and understanding of their own culture, which incorrectly makes them imagine that values, standards, and norms of their own culture are adopted collectively. The concept of ethnocentrism is a common incident that happens for several people across many societies and cultures. According to Brewer (2005), an individual can simultaneously hold positive attitudes towards their own group or outgroups even when they may tend to differ on certain behaviors, attitudes or values. As a result, ethnocentrism is not essentially associated with racism or ethnic prejudice; instead, it is considered as the propensity of using one’s own culture or group as a reference in judging others, with the judgment coming from the indifferent, positive, or negative evaluation (Schopmeyer & Fisher, 1993).
Cultural relativism is the capacity to understand a culture based on its own terms and not make a judgment using the standards of an individual’s own culture. Cultural relativism aims to enhance the comprehension of cultural practices that are not characteristically part of one’s own culture. The concept of cultural relativism leads to the perception that no culture is superior to another when it is compared to a system of politics, law, morality, etc. (Brewer, 2005). People from different cultures may forge relationships that respects, acknowledges, or starts to understand one another’s different lives. People coming from various backgrounds can help one another see options that no one was thinking about because of cultural prohibitions or limitations modeled by their own traditions. Traditional habits in particular cultures can constrain opportunities because they are considered “wrong” from one’s specific culture (Johnson, 2007).
My Cultural Group
I belong to the African Ethnic Group (Yoruba Group). The Yoruba are one of the biggest ethnic groups in West Africa, especially in Nigeria. The Yoruba culture has developed and matured for several years, making it rich in his ...
ELECTIVE 1 MULTICULTURAL GROUP 1
This is a compilation of the reports made by group 1 about what is culture, its components and the Filipino culture.
---USEP CED-BSED TLE 3
Essay on Cultural Globalization
Essay My Personal Culture
Essay about Culture Clash
Essay Human Culture
Essay about Understanding Culture
Essay about Cultural Experience
Running Head ETHNOCENTRISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM .docxjeanettehully
Running Head: ETHNOCENTRISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM 1
ETHNOCENTRISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM 7
Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism
Student Name: Oluwakemi Aina
Instructor’s Name: Dr. La Tonya Scott
01/16/2020
Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism
Ethnocentrism is considered as the propensity to look at the world through the lens of one’s individual culture. This means that people will judge the beliefs, behaviors, customs, and attitudes based on their own cultural patterns. Culture includes ideas, customs, and social behavior of a given group of people or society. It is the characteristics of a given group of people that is defined by social habits, language, beliefs, customs, laws, religion, etc. The aspect of ethnocentrism is considered to take place mostly because people have the highest information and understanding of their own culture, which incorrectly makes them imagine that values, standards, and norms of their own culture are adopted collectively. The concept of ethnocentrism is a common incident that happens for several people across many societies and cultures. According to Brewer (2005), an individual can simultaneously hold positive attitudes towards their own group or outgroups even when they may tend to differ on certain behaviors, attitudes or values. As a result, ethnocentrism is not essentially associated with racism or ethnic prejudice; instead, it is considered as the propensity of using one’s own culture or group as a reference in judging others, with the judgment coming from the indifferent, positive, or negative evaluation (Schopmeyer & Fisher, 1993).
Cultural relativism is the capacity to understand a culture based on its own terms and not make a judgment using the standards of an individual’s own culture. Cultural relativism aims to enhance the comprehension of cultural practices that are not characteristically part of one’s own culture. The concept of cultural relativism leads to the perception that no culture is superior to another when it is compared to a system of politics, law, morality, etc. (Brewer, 2005). People from different cultures may forge relationships that respects, acknowledges, or starts to understand one another’s different lives. People coming from various backgrounds can help one another see options that no one was thinking about because of cultural prohibitions or limitations modeled by their own traditions. Traditional habits in particular cultures can constrain opportunities because they are considered “wrong” from one’s specific culture (Johnson, 2007).
My Cultural Group
I belong to the African Ethnic Group (Yoruba Group). The Yoruba are one of the biggest ethnic groups in West Africa, especially in Nigeria. The Yoruba culture has developed and matured for several years, making it rich in his ...
This presentation was done on the 9th of August 2016- @Divine Word University .
It was based upon the topic which me and my partner Kelvin Sar, had chosen.
The course was Lifespan Issue in Counseling -RS246
Culture:
• Culture: definition- pg 35 in Pretoruis.
• Components of culture:
• Cognitive component- pg 36 in Pretoruis.
• Normative component- pg 37 in Pretoruis.
• Symbolic component- pg 39 in Pretoruis.
Cultural concepts:
• Subcultures- pg 44 in Pretoruis.
• Cultural change- pg 44 in Pretoruis.
• Cultural competence (aspects of cultural identity)- pg 47 in Pretoruis.
• Culture shock- pg 37 in Du Toit.
• Cultural lag- pg 37 in Pretoruis.
• Ethnocentrism- pg 39 in Du Toit
• Xenocentrism- pg 39 in Du Toit
• Xenophobia- pg 40 in Du Toit
Culture formation and expansion
Pg’s 40-43 in Du Toit.
1. Culture in Town
Table of Content
Introduction
Background information
Brief History
Disadvantages
Consumable goods
Dressing
Language
Institutions
Effects
Recommendations
References
2. Introduction
The universe with no exemption is currently recognizing
the rapid growth of youth’s population all around the
world today. Papua New Guinea is also a victim out of the
many countries. Presently, most youths like to live in
towns and cities rather than the rural areas, which their
parents, grandparents and ancestors originated.
Culture is the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a
particular people or society (Dictionary 2016).
The back ground and history, causes and effect,
institution, recommendations of minimizing or solving this
issue in PNG context.
3. Background Information
Papua New Guinea (PNG) has over 800+ different
languages as well as traditional cultures. Every PNG
community has a traditional culture which is very
unique to each other. This traditional culture is part of
our Melanesian style of life.
The foreign culture manages to inflict in our cultural
behaviour in our towns and is slowly drifting towards
the rural areas as well. It is having a greater impact on
our dialectology, appearances and on our health as well.
4. Brief History
During the first settling of the Europeans around the
years 1700s and 1800s (Lonely planet 2016) in Papua
New Guinea, they brought much of their cultures with
them, these cultures were innovative and captured the
attention of many people living there since.
In addition to what the Europeans had brought, since
they were the first people in PNG during the time of
development, other countries such as the Asians and
others even more like abolishing our culture. These
cultures grew till today, and they are still influencing.
5. Disadvantages
Consumable goods (e.g. Foods & taking drugs)
Eating too much of sweets and not eating much
food produced from the garden.
Consuming Alcohol
Fighting
Raping
6. Dressing
Western influence towards dressing
Peer Influence in dressing
Getting pride in dressing
Girls wearing tight clothes
7. Language
Youths only living in towns and they are born in
towns.
Youths only speaks pidgin or English
They are only thought with pidgin or English not their
vernaculars.
8. Institution
organizations and institutions were formed such
as criminals, white collars (Professionals), the
rule of government, and others which enhance to
the destruction to our very own culture
The forming of government are also ideas brought
by foreigners.
These manipulate the system our traditional
culture and many of our youths take part in it.
9. Conclusion
Foreign activities and culture influence and
persuade more people.
Traditional dressing are forgotten, because of
provocative clothing.
Youths that consume substances which affect
them so badly as in addiction, Inherited, laziness,
etc…
Furthermore, they forget the vernacular which is
rightfully theirs; the foreign cultures had taken
away what is ours.
10. Recommendations
Intelligence to investigate and to eradicate such
problems.
Parents responsibility
Individuality; overcome such difficulties
11. Reference
Lonely Planet. (2016 ). Retrieved from
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/papua-new-guinea/history
Society & Culture. (2016, July 27). Retrieved from
https://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090315080649A
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Arifeae, P. (2015, April 2015). Is Papua New Guinea Really Poor?
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Farh, J.-L., Earley, P. C., & Lin, S.-C. (1997, September). Retrieved
from Cornell University:
http://down.cenet.org.cn/upfile/47/20051061115109.pdf
Harper, D. ( 2010). Dictionary.com. Retrieved from Online Etymology
Dictionary: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/poverty
