Cultural Relativism Quotes

• La idea del relativismo cultural no es más que una excusa para violar los derechos humanos.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Ideas, Excuse

  Entrevista con Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. 1 de septiembre de 2004.

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• En realidad, el historicismo y el relativismo cultural son un medio para evitar poner a prueba nuestros propios prejuicios y preguntarnos, por ejemplo, si los hombres son realmente iguales o si esa opinión no es más que un prejuicio democrático.

  Allan Bloom

  Mean, Men, Example

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• El cristianismo protestante, ya sea en su atuendo liberal o conservador, se despierta cada mañana en la cama con una cultura moderna en deterioro, entre sábanas con un reduccionismo sexual desenfrenado, un cientificismo desesperanzado, un relativismo cultural moralmente anodino y un individualismo autoafirmado. Seguimos siendo extranjeros residentes, DEL mundo pero no profundamente en él, cenando en la mesa del banquete de la modernidad menguante sin un susurro de gracia en la mesa. Todos llevamos etiquetas con nombres bíblicos (José, David y Sara), pero hemos olvidado lo que significan nuestros nombres cristianos.

  Thomas Oden

  Cristiano, Mañana, Medio

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• How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Hunger, Hungry, You Like It

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, September 1, 2004.

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• If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.

  Heródoto

  País, Creer, Oportunidad

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• The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Country, People, Firsts

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• I just want to say that the multiculturalism - and especially the cultural relativism which is even worse than multiculturalism, the concept that all cultures are equal - is the worst recipe for any society.

  Geert Wilders

  Culture, Recipes, Want

  Fuente: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• Cada vez que las mujeres protestan y piden sus derechos, son silenciadas con el argumento de que las leyes están justificadas por el Islam. Es un argumento infundado. La culpa no es del Islam, sino de la cultura patriarcal que utiliza sus propias interpretaciones para justificar lo que quiere.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Derechos, Derecho, Islam

  Entrevista con Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. 1 de septiembre de 2004.

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• I know of no civilization that tolerates or justifies violence, terrorism, or injustice. There is no civilization that justifies the killing of innocent people. Those who are invoking cultural relativism are really using that as an excuse for violating human rights and to put a cultural mask on the face of what they're doing.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Civilization, People

  Entrevista con Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. 1 de septiembre de 2004.

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• [Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature.

  George Will

  Revenge, Writing, Giving

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• Europe's greatest problem is cultural relativism. This has led to a situation where Europeans no longer know what they should be proud of and who they really are because a so-called liberal and leftist-imposed concept says that all cultures are the same.

  Geert Wilders

  Europe, Proud, Culture

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• ...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct.

  Mark Steyn

  Tennis, Guy, Aces

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• The only bright feature of cultural relativism's triumph is that it has become establishment orthodoxy and will thus one day be derided, resisted and overthrown.

  Jonathan Meades

  One Day, Triumph, Orthodoxy

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• Lo que me preocupa y no me gusta es la forma en que la ideología del multiculturalismo ha decaído hasta convertirse en relativismo cultural. Creo que eso es muy peligroso. Cuando el Arzobispo de Canterbury, por el amor de Dios, dice que no se puede tener una ley para todos... eso es estúpido.

  Salman Rushdie

  Estúpido, Pensamiento, Ley

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