An aid agency brings its own farming methods into a region and overlooks local varieties better suited to it. Which practice is that?
ACultural relativism
BCultural imperialism
CCultural universals
DCulture shock at work
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Cultural imperialism
1. The agency treats its own methods as the correct ones and the local ones as backward.
2. Imposing your own cultural values on another culture is cultural imperialism.
3. European colonial expansion carried a severe version of the same move.
4. The modern version includes aid work that overlooks indigenous varieties and approaches.
5. Cultural relativism would mean judging local farming by local conditions instead.
6. Cultural universals are traits shared by every society, which is a description rather than a practice.
7. Culture shock is the newcomer's own disorientation, not something done to another culture.
_Source: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 3 "Culture", Ch 4 "Society and Social Interaction" and Ch 5 "Socialization", section 3.1 What Is Culture?_
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