Question

The famous feminist and social theorist Judith Butler has criticized westerners who want to ""free"" Muslim women from wearing a veil or burqa. Butler believes that liberation from the veil is not the liberation many Americans might assume it is. Butler’s view that one culture should not be viewed or judged by the standards of another culture is consistent with what term or concept?

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Answer:

Cultural relativism is the perspective that a foreign culture should not be judged by the standards of a home culture and that a behavior or way of thinking must be examined in its cultural context.

This concept is also related to neocolonialism, xenocentrism and ethnocentrism. All of these implite a culture that believes is better than other.