Analysis Of Cultural Relativism By Harry Gensler

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Harry Gensler states that cultural relativism is the belief that what is good or bad comes from norms that society approves of. Gensler supports this by explaining Ima’s belief that people take the norms they were taught to be objective facts. For instance, if Ima said “Infanticide is wrong,” (Gensler) that translates into Ima’s society disapproving of infanticide. Gensler also explains that there are no absolute objective facts because there is no “wrong”, but just “different” (Gensler) views of cultural norms. His counterargument is that people consistently disagree with values of our society. For instance, he mentions that civil rights leaders challenged the accepted views on segregation. Not everyone is going to agree that segregation is