The dilemma of cultural relativism
...nority. For example, in China, lightly robbing hot coins over the surface of the child’s body, Chinese view coining as medicinal purpose. Without learning about the tradition of the ancient Asian method for treating fever, the police discover the bruises on the child’s back and chest; the parents will encounter to put in the jail. Luckily, they know about the cultural relativism, both saved the parents and the child; also helped they solved the problem. If we don’t know about the capture of the bride stands for the strong of the husband, we will be considered the gloom kidnapping and rape. Such rare behaviors perform the traditions of their own countries. Without knowing by the social workers, both the parents and groom cannot escape from putting into the jail, thanks to the cultural relativism saving their human rights. Once cultural relativism overrides widely on human rights. Cultural relativism becomes negative. For instance, in Sudan, one of the African countries, people there widely spread the practice of female circumcision; this behavior affected the vast majority of females in the northern Sudan. Holding the moral cultural ideology, people there consider an uncircumcised woman as disrespectable. Chronic infections are a common result, and sexual intercourse and childbirth are rendered difficult and painful. Woman found tha...