Q.Compare two cultures with which you are familiar. Is it difficult not to be ethnocentric?
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Comparing two cultures one is familiar with -- for instance, the everyday life of an urban, middle-class household and that of a rural or small-town household in a different region -- quickly turns up real differences: in food habits, in how greetings are exchanged, in how much freedom young people (especially girls) are given to move around unaccompanied, in how much of daily life follows an oral, face-to-face rhythm versus a more media-saturated, individually scheduled one. Each of these patterns is not arbitrary; it typically makes sense as a way that community has adapted to its own particular environment, economy and history -- exactly the kind of adequacy-to-circumstance that the tsunami example in this chapter illustrates, where island communities using modern technology and tribal communities using traditional ecological knowledge each had their own coherent way of coping with their surroundings. …
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