Ethnocentrism
...tes some people believe it is wrong for people of the same sex to engage in sexual relations such as oral or anal sex, but in places like the Tran-Fly region of Papua New Guinea most tribes think it is ok to practice homosexuality and favor it over heterosexual activities. Such heterosexual activities are strictualy used for reproduction and nothing more. Even within this area ethnocentrism exists in that where one tribe believes that oral sex among men is ok, but anal sex is considered disgusting and vice versa. Ethnocentrism has also caused greater problem, especially when a group is more powerful and dominating than the other group they are forcing their beliefs upon. A prime example of this is when the Nazi’s thought of Jews a weak culture and that they needed to be controlled or destroyed, leading to millions of people being enslaved and killed in Nazi death camps. We as a people need more than ever to be able to recognized the differences of other cultures, even though we may not agree with them and be more understanding and less ...