Cultural relativism is the totality of the mental and physical reactions and activities that characterize the behavior of the individuals composing a social group collectively and individually in relation to their natural environment, to other groups, to members of the group itself, and of each individual to himself.
Cultural relativism is not to imply moral relativism, but rather is intended to warn against universalizing western categories.
Cultural relativism is at times also disavowed by individuals who are eager to share in the benefits of industrialization and for whom it is preferable to see themselves as temporarily backward rather than permanently different.
Cultural relativism is the idea that reason is nothing other than that which the community in question determines it to be.
Cultural relativism is the idea that no warrior has been shaken in his patriotism by the idea that he might have been born on the other side of the border.
