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    Written Task 1 Cultural Relativism

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    The document is a passage about a couple from Denmark and Brooklyn who were arrested for leaving their 14-month old baby outside a Manhattan restaurant while they ate inside. [1] It discusses how leaving babies outside is a common practice in Denmark due to the size of baby carriages and smoky cafes. [2] Danes have a belief that fresh air, even cold air, is good for children, so Danish babies regularly nap outside even in freezing weather wearing warm clothing. [3]

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    The document is a passage about a couple from Denmark and Brooklyn who were arrested for leaving their 14-month old baby outside a Manhattan restaurant while they ate inside. [1] It discusses how leaving babies outside is a common practice in Denmark due to the size of baby carriages and smoky cafes. [2] Danes have a belief that fresh air, even cold air, is good for children, so Danish babies regularly nap outside even in freezing weather wearing warm clothing. [3]

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    The document is a passage about a couple from Denmark and Brooklyn who were arrested for leaving their 14-month old baby outside a Manhattan restaurant while they ate inside. [1] It discusses how leaving babies outside is a common practice in Denmark due to the size of baby carriages and smoky cafes. [2] Danes have a belief that fresh air, even cold air, is good for children, so Danish babies regularly nap outside even in freezing weather wearing warm clothing. [3]

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    Written Task 1 Cultural Relativism

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    The document is a passage about a couple from Denmark and Brooklyn who were arrested for leaving their 14-month old baby outside a Manhattan restaurant while they ate inside. [1] It discusses how leaving babies outside is a common practice in Denmark due to the size of baby carriages and smoky cafes. [2] Danes have a belief that fresh air, even cold air, is good for children, so Danish babies regularly nap outside even in freezing weather wearing warm clothing. [3]

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    Written Task 1 (Culture and Ethics)

    Name: _____________________________________________________ Year/Section_______

    Write TRUE or FALSE on the space provided. (10 points)


    ______________1. Culture is the written shared values norms, beliefs and ideas of the people.
    ______________2. Culture is naturally and automatically acquired.
    ______________3. Ethics implies the theory of right and wrong good and bad
    ______________4. Colonial mentality is an example of ethnocentrism
    ______________5. Xenocentrism is good because it values humility
    ______________6. Cultural relativism is the counter concept of ethnocentrism
    ______________7. No human cultures are perfect
    ______________8. Cultural relativism adheres “there is no absolute truth”
    ______________9. Ethics is based on reason while morality is based on tradition
    ______________10. Morality and culture are relative

    Read the following passage.

    A couple of years ago Annette Sorensen 30 an actress from Copenhagen Denmark, and Exavier Wardlaw
    49, a movie production assistant from Brooklyn NY, were arrested for leaving their 14-month-old-daughter outside
    a Manhattan restaurant on a chilly day while they ate inside the restaurant. They left in her baby carriage on the
    side walk. Many passers-by called 911 to alert the police. New York authorities away from Sorenseen and Wardlaw
    and temporarily placed her in foster care.

    In an ensuing article in the New Yok Times one Danish commentator stated that leaving a baby outside a
    restaurant is a very common practice in Denmark. The commentator wrote “often Danish parents leave their babies
    outside. For one thing Danish baby carriages are enormous. Babies ride high above the world on horse-carriage-
    size wheels, its hard to get such a carriage into a café. Besides Danish cafes are very smoky places. “The
    commentator continued in Denmark, people have an almost religious conviction that fresh air, preferably cold air; is
    good for children. All Danish babies nap outside even in freezing weather- tucked warmly under their plum goose-
    down comforters. In Denmark, all children own a sort of polar survival suit that they wear from October to April,
    and they go out every day, even in winter.

    1. Is the act of the couple reasonable? (10 points)


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    ______________________________________________________________________________
    2. How does their culture influence their behavior? (10 points)
    ______________________________________________________________________________
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