Question

Sosuke is from Japan and has decided to give his informative speech on Japanese marriage customs. Because he will be getting married back home the next summer, he is very excited about the topic. He is concerned, however, that his classmates, all of whom are from the United States, may think he is saying that marriage traditions in Japan are better than those in the United States. Sosuke’s concern indicates that he is sensitive to the problem of ___________.a) egoism
b) ethical relativism
c) ethnocentrism
d) all of the above
e) a and b only

Answer 1

Answer:c) ethnocentrism

Explanation:Ethnocentrism can be defined as the disposition to read the rest of the world, those of different cultural traditions, from inside the conceptual scheme of one's own ethnocultural group. The ethnocentric attitude assumes that one's own ethnic Weltanschauung (worldview) is the only one from which other customs, practices, and habits can be understood and judged. Ethnocentrism thus is conceived critically as involving overgeneralizations about cultures and their inhabitants, others' or one's own, on the basis of limited or skewed.