Cultural relativism is the principle that an individual human's beliefs and activities should be interpreted in terms of his or her own culture. Moreover, this is an issue that we still face now in days due to the differences among societies. Achebe, who wrote Things Fall Apart proves to us that relativism affects everyone, leading to confrontation and disgrace among societies. Throughout the novel of Things Fall Apart we learn on how cultural relativism affects early Africans societies. Achebe proves to us that relativism affects everyone, and it only leads to disagreement and disgrace. These is reflected when the Africans look down on the outcast, and the whites look down on the Africans.
Nobody denies that Okonkwo wants to be a better man; as a result he had been fantasizing that after his exile from Umofia he wanted to make a big splash with his return to his village. Okonkwo was motivated by a desire to preserve his clan閳ユ獨 cultural traditions; and he was willing to fight back. But as he said, 閳ユ涪he white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to say. Now he has won our brother, and our clan can no longer act like one.閳?176 Consequently Okonkwo fails to the community, given that 閳ユ涪he Christians had grown in number and were now a small community閳ワ腹鈧及g 159
At the end of chapter twenty one, Okonkwo and Obierika were disgusting how the colonialists had changed their way of living since they first settled there. 閳ユ翻he white man is very clever, he came quietly and peaceably with his religion and now claims that our customs are bad閳?stated Okonkwo 196. Because Obierika knew what White men had done was really bad, he wrap up that 閳ユ辅hite said that our customs are bad; and our own brothers who have taken up his religion also say that our customs are bad. How do you think we can fight when our own brothers have turned against us?閳?175 Obierika knew that now there wasn閳ユ獩 any way out since converts were against their own race. Because Okonkwo knew that his clan wouldn閳ユ獩 fight back, he tries to resolve this problem by himself, but he was unsuccessful because no one supported him.
There is no doubt that relativism is at hand various times in the book, indeed it閳ユ獨 present in chapter eighteen when Mr. Kiaga, a turned Christian missionary is arguing with the converts of Christianity. Mr. Kiaga was telling the converts that, 閳ユ競efore God, there is no slave or free. We are all children of God and we must receive these our brothers.閳?Pg 156 He was telling them this because they did not wanted to accept the outcast in their church due to the fact that outcast was someone that wherever he went he was set apart, for his long, tangle dirty hair. But then something happens, and 閳ユ涪he two outcasts shaved off their hair, and soon they were the strongest adherents of the new faith.閳?Pg 157
It閳ユ獨 certainly that we witness the consequences of prejudice, when Whites look down on Africans, and Africans look down on outcasts. 閳ユ凡hat will the heathen say of us when they hear that we receive osu into our midst閳ワ腹鈧?shows us how the Whites where worried about the fact of having an outcast in their church. Pg 156
Another example of how cultural relativism is a subject in today閳ユ獨 world is how Americans hate Muslims. Indeed, during the last years abhorrence among Muslims and Americans has grown. The majority of the American asks themselves 閳ユ凡hy do Muslims hate us?閳?But the answer to these is that as the Americans blind support for colonialist power such as Israel has brought Arabs to dislike American. The issue with the Americans is that 閳ユ辅henever we Arabs try to get arms to defend ourselves against one of the strongest armies in the world, which has never hesitated in using its destructive power with impunity against us, we are blocked by America from acquiring the means by which we could defend ourselves閳?stated one of the Arab.
Arabs have watched how Americans attack them and destroy them, and how they impose embargoes against their nation and then conquer their land, imprison their people and generally deal with them as savages. And then they ask Arabs why they hate them. But, 閳ユ辅hat terrible crimes have Arabs done to disserve these?閳?this is the question most Arab do themselves.
In this situation we know that the Americans did know that there where no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Americans can閳ユ獩 claim that they didn閳ユ獩 know what was really happening in which thousands have lost their lives. Nevertheless, when Arabs try to get arms to defend themselves against one the strongest armies in the world, they are blocked by the Americans from acquiring the means to defend themselves.
In conclusion, Cultural relativism is still a concern in today閳ユ獨 world that originated many years ago. Cultural relativism which is the ethical and moral standards that are relative to what a particular society or culture believes to be good, bad, right or wrong, is reflected throughout history.
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i'm guessing "now in days" should be "nowadays" or something like "to this day"
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I don't understand why if you took the time to write the whole thing out here why didn't you just edit it as you were doing it? There are some things that you need to do for yourself.
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Cultural relativism is the principle that an individual human's beliefs and activities should be interpreted in terms of his or her own culture. Moreover, this is an issue that we still face today* due to the differences among societies. Achebe, who wrote Things Fall Apart proves to us that relativism affects everyone, leading to confrontation and disgrace among societies. Throughout the novel,* we learn *how cultural relativism affected* early African* societies. Achebe proves to us that relativism affects everyone, and it only leads to disagreement and disgrace**try 2 different words here**. This is reflected when the Africans look down on the outcasts*, and the whites look down on the Africans.
Nobody denies that Okonkwo wants to be a better man; as a result he had been fantasizing that after his exile from Umofia he wanted to make a big splash with his return to his village. Okonkwo was motivated by a desire to preserve his clan閳ユ獨 cultural traditions; and he was willing to fight back. But as he said, 閳ユ涪he white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to say. Now he has won our brother, and our clan can no longer act like one.閳?176 Consequently Okonkwo fails *the community, given that 閳ユ涪he Christians had grown in number and were now a small community閳ワ腹鈧及g 159
At the end of chapter twenty one, Okonkwo and Obierika were discussing* how the colonialists had changed their way of living since they first settled there. 閳ユ翻he white man is very clever, he came quietly and peaceably with his religion and now claims that our customs are bad閳?stated Okonkwo 196. Because Obierika knew what White men had done was really bad, he added that* 閳ユ辅hite said that our customs are bad; and our own brothers who have taken up his religion also say that our customs are bad. How do you think we can fight when our own brothers have turned against us?閳?175 Obierika knew that now there wasn閳ユ獩 any way out since converts were against their own race. Because Okonkwo knew that his clan wouldn閳ユ獩 fight back, he tried* to resolve this problem by himself, but he was unsuccessful because no one supported him.
There is no doubt that relativism is at hand various times in the book, indeed it閳ユ獨 present in chapter eighteen when Mr. Kiaga, a turned Christian missionary is arguing with the converts of Christianity. Mr. Kiaga told* the converts that, 閳ユ競efore God, there is no slave or free. We are all children of God and we must receive these our brothers.閳?Pg 156 He said* this because they did not want* to accept the outcast in their church due to the fact that outcast was someone that *was set apart wherever he went* for his long, tangly,* dirty hair. But then something happened*, and 閳ユ涪he two outcasts shaved off their hair, and soon they were the strongest adherents of the new faith.閳?Pg 157
It閳ユ獨 certain* that we witness the consequences of prejudice, when Whites look down on Africans, and Africans look down on outcasts. 閳ユ凡hat will the heathen say of us when they hear that we receive osu into our midst閳ワ腹鈧?shows us how the Whites where worried about the fact of having an outcast in their church. Pg 156
Another example of how cultural relativism is a subject in today閳ユ獨 world is how Americans hate Muslims. Indeed, during the last years abhorrence among Muslims and Americans has grown. The majority of the Americans* ask* themselves 閳ユ凡hy do Muslims hate us?閳?But the answer to this* is that as the Americans blind support for colonialist power such as Israel has brought Arabs to dislike Americans*. The issue with the Americans is that 閳ユ辅henever we Arabs try to get arms to defend ourselves against one of the strongest armies in the world, which has never hesitated in using its destructive power with impunity against us, we are blocked by America from acquiring the means by which we could defend ourselves閳?stated one of the Arabs*.
Arabs have watched how Americans attack them and destroy them, and how they impose embargoes against their nation and then conquer their land, imprison their people and generally deal with them as savages. And then they ask Arabs why they hate them. But, 閳ユ辅hat terrible crimes have Arabs done to disserve these?閳?this is the question most Arabs* ask* themselves.
In this situation we know that the Americans did know that there where no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Americans can閳ユ獩 claim that they didn閳ユ獩 know what was really happening in which thousands have lost their lives. Nevertheless, when Arabs try to get arms to defend themselves against one the strongest armies in the world, they are blocked by the Americans from acquiring the means to defend themselves.
In conclusion, Cultural relativism is still a concern in today閳ユ獨 world that originated many years ago. Cultural relativism which is the ethical and moral standards that are relative to what a particular society or culture believes to be good, bad, right or wrong, is reflected throughout history.
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