Ethnocentrism is judging other cultures solely in terms of one’s own culture. Cultural relativity is

a. suspending judgment of other society’s customs, practices, and institutions.
b. another word for ethnocentrism.
c. judging other cultures in terms of the nearest neighboring society.
d. all of these.


a. suspending judgment of other society’s customs, practices, and institutions.

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