John became friends with some local students while visiting Cambodia. John's new friends took him out to a nice restaurant and ordered a popular delicacy, grilled tarantulas. John has lived in the U.S. his entire life and couldn't bring himself to eat the spiders. John's reaction is a result of what?

A. material culture
B. ethnocentrism
C. bad behavior
D. cultural relativism


Answer: B

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