Discussion Questions

What do you think are elements of Black culture?

What about subsets within Black culture?

What about Blackness are you proud of?

What stereotypes and assumption have experienced?

How do you handle micro and macro aggressions?

What questions do you have about the above?

Cultural Ethnocentrism + Relativism

Relativism is the ability to understand a culture on its own terms and not to make judgments using the standards of one’s own culture. The goal of this is promote understanding of cultural practices that are not typically part of one’s own culture. Using the perspective of cultural relativism leads to the view that no one culture is superior than another culture when compared to systems of morality, law, politics, etc.

Ethnocentrism is the tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one’s own culture. Part of ethnocentrism is the belief that one’s own race, ethnic or cultural group is the most important or that some or all aspects of its culture are superior to those of other groups. Some people will simply call it cultural ignorance.