Experiences of men and women in the aspect of cultural relativism, social roles, and rights PDF

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Experiences of men and women in the aspect of cultural relativism, social roles, and rights. Is it good or bad? “Cultural Relativism is the view that moral or ethical systems, which vary from culture to culture,areall equally valid and no one system is really ‘better’ than any other. This is based on the idea that there is no ultimate standard of good or evil, so every judgment about right and wrong is a product of society” (Cultural Relativism: All Truth is Local). Women’s most obvious difference between all the sexes is the woman’s comparative physical weakness that makes her vulnerable to kinds of violence, including sexual violence, intimate partner violence, domestic, sexual harassment, and emotional/psychological violence. This also goes together to the public treatment and concentration of activities and responsibilities, especially in most companies who keep on disrespecting the woman’s capabilities to do what other sexes can do. The cultural aspect of our country in relation to men’s and women’s social roles and rights is that men do the hard work and the women do the housework. In the Philippines, men go to work and make money for his family all throughout the week, while the women’s duty is to be responsible for her kids and be the light of their own house. This is completely different from other countries that both men and women go to work and make money for their families.

In the aspect of cultural relativism, this is bad for all the sexes because we set our mind into something that is wrong and we keep on believing it is right because it is the culture that we grew up and the culture that leads us up to this point. “For example, during the World Cup or Olympics, you may tend to root for your own country and believe that players or teams representing your country are much better. National pride is also part of ethnocentrism.” (“Cultural relativism: definition & examples (article) | Khan Academy,” 2012) In this country’s cultural belief, most women are defined as weak, and hard to believe that they can do what other sexes can do also. Women’s doing are highly disrespected and questionable if they really do the work or not, they keep asking and asking and hard to trust that women are not weak and women are a woman with rights. We should try to respect human rights instead of the cultural beliefs that cannot stand on human individual roles and responsibilities.

Acknowledging cultural relativism as a general aspect, we can recognize that our culture shapes what we consider

beautiful,

ugly,

appealing,

disgusting,

virtuous,

funny,

and

abhorrent

(https://www.facebook.com/thoughtcodotcom, 2019). In a general aspect, cultural relativism is good in cultural differences especially in language differences, physical, religious views, and environment that they live in for a long time and what they believe in. You cannot laugh at a person of other cultures who doesn’t even know how to say your language or how to use a cellphone. But in the aspect of human rights in men and women, in my opinion, that is completely different. In either color of the skin, physical body composition, responsibilities, etc. The male-dominated society often ignores the rights of the women and for which reason, the women remain a vulnerable section of the society. While in some cases of men social roles has been an issue in the Philippines if one’s men are scared of their wives, they tend to call it as “Under ng Asawa” or if men don’t have work or any things to do and just on the house even if they are in legal age, They call it as “Tamad” because men in the Philippines must be hardworking. Filipinos have the idea of social roles in men and women that has been a cultural belief in the past years of believing it is good and it is the right thing.

References: Kelley, S. (2014, October 6). The Appeal of Cultural Relativism | Philosophy from a Student’s Prospective. Retrieved October 10, 2020, from Osu.edu website: https://u.osu.edu/philosophy1100h/2014/10/06/the-appeal-of-cultural-relativism/comment-page-1/ Cultural relativism: definition & examples (article) | Khan Academy. (2012). Retrieved October 10, 2020, from Khan Academy website: https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat/society-and-culture/culture/a/cultural-relativism-article#:~:text =Cultural%20relativism%20refers%20to%20not,%2C%20%E2%80%9CFried%20crickets%20are%20disgu sting!...