2/22/13: Of Cannibals, Kings and Culture: The Problem of Ethnocentricity

The organization of the article I read was reverse chronological because they went from a king that was interrogating Colombian prisoners and then it went to talk about someone else that was a long time before the king he first talked about. The tone of the article was didactic this means that the author was trying to inform you about something, what he was trying to inform you about in this article was the idea of the problem of ethnocentrism. The article was about the way that we treat people and the way that we look at other peoples culture. What we consider taboo isn't considered that in other peoples culture and just because we aren't accustomed to something doesn't mean that we should disrespect people because they practice this. The points that show this in the article are: “accustomed to regard their own customs as by far the best.”  Since the Brazilians saw all human beings “as halves of one another… We all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits. This blog could mean many different things to other people but what it meant to me was that all people should be treated equally and they should not judge them because of their customs.