JOURNAL REVIEW “Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critiques of International Human Rights – Friends or Foes?” Human Rights and Gender Issues in World Politic Lecturer: Natasya Kusumawardani, SIP., M.Prof.Studs. (Hons.) Abu Rijal El Jihadi / 016201400001 IR Defense 1 2014 President University Jalan Ki Hajar Dewantara, Jababeka Education Park, Cikarang, West Java, 17550 www.president.ac.id 2016 Journal Reviewed: Reitman, Oonagh. (1997). “Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critiques of International
The journal titled Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critique in International Human Right is basically talking about the similarity and the tension between two major groups which is Cultural relativism and feminism. They both critique about International Human right. The newest critique happened in United Nation Conference in 1994 that discussed about Family planning and the rights of women to control their own body. The Cultural relativist people oppose those action regarding it is violence their
Think Piece Two In our assigned readings and study on ethnocentrism and cultural relativism, John Macionis discussed how mankind till this day still continually struggles to understand various differences from one culture to another culture. I’ve gained from my perspective that it can be quite challenging for one to even try to grasp the ideas of another’s culture without putting their own personal perspective and believes into their thought behind it. One might even feel as if their upbringing
Name – ROHIT KUMAR Roll Number – 2015078 Journal Writing Cultural Relativism Cultural Relativism is the viewpoint that each person’s ethics and moral believes are strongly influenced by the culture of the society in which he/she is living. So viewpoint of every individual varies for varying culture in which he/she is brought up. Cultural Relativism is based on the idea that every culture is equal, no system is better than any other, no ultimate standard of right and wrong. So every outcome
colonization, old westerns empires had forced their colonies to follow Western culture and while some colonies quickly accepted the new culture there were still others that refused it, thus a punishment was made to those cultures. Humans can not be cultural relative simply because of colonization, discrimination, and racial stereotypes. The only thing humans can be is ethnocentrism just based on their attitudes and beliefs. Colonization
This is where anthropology comes in. There are four fields of anthropology: cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, biological anthropology, and archeology. Within these four fields, there are methods of anthropology; these consist of travel journals or treatises, armchair anthropology, and ethnography based on field work
Journal Article Review: Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critiques of International Human Rights – Friends or Foes? Written by: Oonagh Reitman, 1997 This journal article is explaining about the different views in the critiques in the International Human Rights. The writer of this article attempts to explain to the readers to differentiate the understanding of the point of views of two sides, cultural relativist and feminist. Cultural relativist and feminist are actually quite similar but in the way
If someone was to ask me what anthropology was, prior to this assignment, I would have probably taken an educated guess such as “the study of life”. In a sense that is correct but not entirely accurate. Anthropology is defined as, “The study of human kind in all times and places” (Haviland, Prins, McBride, & Walrath, 2017). After an extensive analyzation of my experiences, I concluded that I don’t practice anthropology in my life enough. In addition, I discovered that my life doesn’t have much diversity
the Western perception of dogs and pets as companions and deserving of animal rights justifies their protest and condemnation of the Yulin Dog Meat Festival. However, that is also reflective of the heart of ethnocentrism, because people outside the cultural boundaries of China are passing judgements about the Yulin Dog Meat Festival by using their own culture as the basis of comparison. Critiques of the festival have their
“Cultural relativism asserts that since each culture has its own inherent integrity with unique values and practices, value judgements should be withheld or suspended until cultural context is taken into account,” (Fluehr-Lobban). In Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban’s article Cultural Relativism and Universal Human Rights, she examines the way anthropologists have gone about observing and recording other cultures in their practices for years, and how with new facts and oppositions arising each day as light