This is consistent with the kairos of Miner’s essay that emerged during the late 1900s in which Europeans focused on the colonization of primitive countries such as Africa specifically the Congo as described in Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness. Similarly, Miner underscores one of the larger controversies with cultural relativism: moral relativism, expressing that norms or mores, such as teeth brushing that a large majority of cultures practice, are not always performed in the same manner as in the United States nor with the same purposes. While these differences should be respected by all individuals cultural relativism does not mean adopting others beliefs or abandoning one’s own rather just practicing value neutrality. Moreover, different cultures often appear exotic or strange as established in the opening sentence that creates ethos, specifically when described by individuals from different cultures or with unique linguistic articulations (argot), however, brushing away the “plague” we often see resemblance to our own “holes” (shortcomings), “fillings” (traditions), and “gums” (foundational concepts). As John Hume and Malcolm Forbes concluded, in parallel to Miner’s sociological article, “Difference is of the essence of humanity, […]it is the art of thinking independently together, the answer to difference is to respect it,” and without cultural relativism to discredit ethnocentrism, societies would develop “gingivitis”(social alienation) resulting in a loss of perception of varying cultures, one’s own culture and relationships to the external
This is consistent with the kairos of Miner’s essay that emerged during the late 1900s in which Europeans focused on the colonization of primitive countries such as Africa specifically the Congo as described in Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness. Similarly, Miner underscores one of the larger controversies with cultural relativism: moral relativism, expressing that norms or mores, such as teeth brushing that a large majority of cultures practice, are not always performed in the same manner as in the United States nor with the same purposes. While these differences should be respected by all individuals cultural relativism does not mean adopting others beliefs or abandoning one’s own rather just practicing value neutrality. Moreover, different cultures often appear exotic or strange as established in the opening sentence that creates ethos, specifically when described by individuals from different cultures or with unique linguistic articulations (argot), however, brushing away the “plague” we often see resemblance to our own “holes” (shortcomings), “fillings” (traditions), and “gums” (foundational concepts). As John Hume and Malcolm Forbes concluded, in parallel to Miner’s sociological article, “Difference is of the essence of humanity, […]it is the art of thinking independently together, the answer to difference is to respect it,” and without cultural relativism to discredit ethnocentrism, societies would develop “gingivitis”(social alienation) resulting in a loss of perception of varying cultures, one’s own culture and relationships to the external