Cultural relativism

Cultural relativism is the claim that an individual's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual's own culture.

It is a common claim in Boasian anthropology.

It is sometimes argued to not imply moral relativism, but this is a contested and debated issue.

See also

• Relativism
• American Anthropological Association‎: Human rights
  • On the organization's ambivalent relationship to human rights, partly due to cultural relativist views.

Race relations

• Racial awareness
• Ethnocentrism
• Miscegenation
• Ethnic heterogeneity
• Critical race theory