Ethnocentrism In America

In our day of age, we as the United States of America usually believe that we are better than other countries. A lot of people even get into debate on this subject. This is where the definition of ethnocentrism comes to play, which is how we tend to view other cultures based on how we compare it to our own culture, which makes us believe wrong things about that cultures or even judge that cultures in a bad light. But we should not do this because other cultures have their way of doing things for a reason. Like how culture relativism says that we she learn to judge other cultures by not our standard but theirs. Through this essay, we should open our mind to new ideas and hopeful get something out of it. So comparing how African views on marriage to our country views on it. We will learn how Africa would find odd about our view and what we find odd on their view on marriage. In Africa, marriage is a very important part of their culture. It is secret and is between a man and a woman. In
One of these tribes with weird traditions was one Banyankole Tribe Of Uganda. This tribe has the aunt of the bride either sleep with the groom or listen to the husband and her niece do it to give them a potency test. She even as to test the bride's virginity. In eastern Africa where some girls in many different tribes stitch everything up but a small opening so they can pee or clean out the menstruation blood out. So they can will be virgins when they wed. The zulu people have their brides change three times during the ceremony to impress her new in-laws but most of the time keeps wearing a red headband that is made out of the bride’s mother’s hair. There is much more tribe tradition that are very interesting or not normal for Americans. But these once were the once that stood out and should be talked about. People can see how different traditions are in this culture than it is to