A guest attends a wedding in a different culture and notes what they perceive as the subservient role of the bride during the ceremony. When the guest comments about this to a friend from the bride's culture, the friend says that it was not as it seemed. How would the friend's interpretation be considered?

A. as cultural relativism
B. as an etic perspective
C. as a cultural inconsistency
D. as an emic perspective


Answer: D

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