Read the article below and answer the questions following. Please write in complete sentences.———————————————————————————————————————
1. In 1997, two Iraqi brothers moved with their wives from Iraq to Montana. The couples legally wed in Iraq before relocating to the United States. The brothers, 28 and 34, worked, and the women, 14 and 16, respectively, attended school. All were participating in the naturalization process to become U.S. citizens. However, after being alerted by a teacher at the wives’ school, the two brothers were arrested and charged with statutory rape. Was their arrest ethnocentric or culturally relative?
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2. François studying the Yanomamo of Brazil found the practice of wife-beating to be common among the group. During his stay with the Yanomamo he witnessed several such beatings, but never confronted the husbands even though such practice went against his moral code, but rather recorded it as a demonstration of love. Was François behavior ethnocentric or culturally relative?
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In 2010 Arizona placed a ban on a popular Mexican-American ethnic studies program at Tucson Unified School District. The law prohibited courses that promoted resentment toward a race or a class of people or advocated ethnic solidarity instead of treating people as individuals. It banned courses designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group. In 2017 U.S. District Judge Wallace Tashima found that the state enacted the ban with discriminatory intent and that evidence showed that defendants were pursuing these discriminatory ends in order to make political gains. Is Judge Tashima’s ruling ethnocentric or culturally relative?
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4. Immigrants from many African and Middle Eastern nations that practice female circumcision are being arrested in the Western nations they relocate to for performing female circumcisions on their daughters. The immigrants argue that female circumcision is a culturally important practice that many women in their cultures have performed. Many nations consider female circumcision child abuse, and the UN is considering making the practice a violation of global law. The UN even refers to the action as FGM, or female genital mutilation. Is the arrest of these immigrants ethnocentric or culturally relative?
