Discuss the extent that cultural relativism would be a useful approach to understanding and interacting with people in your own society that did (or do) the same.

Cultural Anthropology gives three distinct meanings of
cultural relativism: a moral stance that requires anthropologists
to suspend
moral and ethical judgments when interacting with a culture
different from
their own, a methodological strategy that allows the anthropologist
to pay
specific attention to the uniqueness of a culture, and an
epistemological
position that cultures are unique and therefore knowledge about
different
cultures is almost inherently not comparable. (Sec. 1.3).
In your forum contribution:
1.Discuss what you see as the strengths and
weaknesses of each of these three kinds of relativism.
2. Identify one belief or practice in another
culture that you find puzzling, strange, or troubling, and then
discuss the
extent that cultural relativism is a useful approach to
understanding and
interacting with the people who hold it.
3. Discuss the extent that cultural relativism
would be a useful approach to understanding and interacting with
people in your
own society that did (or do) the same.
4. Explore the extent to which whether one is
studying in one’s own country or in another makes a difference in
the
applicability of cultural relativism to one’s research.
Your initial response should be at least 150 words in
length. Build on the ideas and terminology in the text and your own
ideas to
support your answers. Please support your claims with examples from
the text,
required and recommended material, and/or scholarly articles.
Respond to at
least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7.