Cultural Relativism

Cultural relativism is understanding and accepting the cultural practices of different societies. Not many people do accept the different cultural practices so there is conflict. In Things Fall Apart this is a big deal. The missionaries try to change the cultural practices of the native people. They do not accept the society and their cultural practices because it is not what the missionaries thought was right. So they changed the society. This also happens alot in the world today. People fight over cultural differences all the time. They just can't accept that a different way of doing something could be right. I find this very sad. People can't get along and learn from each other so there is war. If everyone could work together the world would be a much better place.