Cultural relativism is expressed and understood in different ways.Most often, it is understood as man's dependence on the ethical attitudes of the culture to which he belongs.
Yes, all of us grew up in a particular society, with its own system of views on current events and subjects of the world.Man begins to adhere to certain ethical and cultural principles are not for the reason that they have become the object of his quest, and of the one that they adhere to all around.Yes, we did receive a lot of the society in which we get education, grow, develop.Cultural rights are based on the fact that each of us has access to the cultural achievements of society, it can to a certain extent to use them.Is aesthetic views is determined culture?In most cases - yes.For this reason, they can not be called objective truth.Cultural relativism is based on the fact that a person involuntarily impose certain positions, define its views.In principle, there is nothing wrong here.The thing is that the issue of human rights is not affected, and developed personality can itself decide what she needs.
It is worth noting that in the past (and sometimes today) those whose opinions differ from the views of society, severely punished.Cultural non-deterministic views and in fact may be perceived hostile and aggressive in whatever situation.In any era can be seen criticism of the people of his contemporaries.
Cultural relativism and understand a little differently.In a sense it is ethnocentrism.We are talking about a situation where the individual is fully convinced that his presentation about the culture of the people is the only true and beliefs of other people - an absurdity that has nothing to do with reality.It is kind of extreme.
Many scientists believe that ethnocentrism - is the preaching of ignorance, intolerance, arrogance, and so on.This statement is due to the fact that many people are really ready to prove the correctness of the views of their people, even when it is proved that they are not true.A person who applies to the views of their society are not fanatical or even indifference, in most cases willing to admit that the views of people of other nations in certain matters may be more correct.
Some thinkers have assumed the existence of some objective moral truth that exists in the form of pure knowledge.The bottom line is that the truth is the same for all, that is for all people.Cultural relativism denies the existence of such a truth.Its absence is explained by the fact that all views on morality are culturally-deterministic, and the standard by which one culture could prove that it is better than the other, does not exist and never will exist.
Based on all that has been said above, we can conclude that attempts to influence the beliefs of other cultures are a gross violation of the rules of tolerance.
Cultural relativism is associated with some specific problems.One of them is based on the fact that today is the promotion of any person, regardless of nationality, gender, profession and so on.In some countries, there is still the oppression of people who on the one hand can be regarded as barbaric, and on the other - the features of a particular people.Is the whole world must be tolerant of the fact that in some parts of humiliating someone's human dignity?Is it permissible to outside interference?These issues are actually much more complex than they appear.The unequivocal answer to them is still there.
