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ANT 101; Rites of Passage Select one aspect of culture from the list . Once you’ve made your selection, please delete
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pressed during the time of
death, a cultural practice that has been continually practiced by the Fukui Mortuary in the United
States. While in their daylight and professional spaces, the Japanese-Americans perceive their
norms and habits as American (Yamaguchi, 2017). However, this differs during bereavement Answer Preview…………………Cultural relativism highlights the importance of examining cultural practices within their context to understand the beliefs and values from the perception of the individuals who take part in them. The principle of cultural relativism seeks to avoid cultural bias during research by avoiding judging a different culture by the ideals of one’s culture. As such, cultural relativism is an attempt to shun ethnocentrism. Notably, it is increasingly difficult to understand a different culture from an emic perspective due to the tendency of favoring one’s values and beliefs on the presumption that they are superior to the other. To avoid ethnocentrism, it is important to change one’s perceptions by assuming an outsider’s view of your culture and assuming an insider’s standpoint towards a different culture. Different cultural practices such as rites of passage are an important transitional period in an individual’s life like birth and marriage (Chapter 6). Over the course of this paper, I will examine death as a rite of passage and how it is perceived differently by both the Japanese and American Cultures. As the rites of passage differ from culture to culture, I will examine how the Japanese perceive death by highlighting on their celebratory rituals relative to that of the Americans who perceive it as a devastating occurrence with no periodic rituals being observed…………..APA 1843 words
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