Personal biases on cultural practices

For this journal, consider the sources that you summarized for Part I and Part II of your paper in your Week Three Assignment Worksheet.

What was your initial response to the sources you read for your paper? Include in-text citations using Ashford’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. guide and full reference entries in APA format to all sources you will be using for your Final Research Paper.

In the course of this class, you have learned about cultural diversity and how to apply cultural relativism to understand beliefs, practices, and behaviors within their cultural context. How has learning about different culturally practices helped you to better understand how narrowmindedness and prejudice constrict diversity?

Can you identify any biases that you might have about the cultural practices you will discuss in either Part I or Part II of your Final Research Paper?

Identify any problems you might be having in examining your own culture from an etic perspective or the other culture from an emic perspective. Review Miner’s article Body Ritual Among the Nacirema, (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.and explain how his discussion of Americans (also known as Nacirema) will help you take an outsider’s perspective on your own culture.