Public Interest
Nov. 1, 2001
Tolerance Takes Backseat in Nation's Battle Against Evil
In my undergraduate cultural anthropology class, we would watch films condemning oppressive Western nations. We read Margaret Mead and William Graham Sumner, who described morality in terms of naturalistic and cultural conventions. Morality, Sumner would state, is not objective but relative. Each culture has a unique set of values, and law is merely a device to enforce and promote these customs and values.
By Keith H. Bray
In my undergraduate cultural anthropology class, we would watch films condemning oppressive Western nations. We read Margaret Mead and William Graham Sumner, who described morality in terms of naturalistic and cultural conventions. Morality, Sumner would state, is not objective but relative. Each culture has a unique set of values, and law is mer...
In my undergraduate cultural anthropology class, we would watch films condemning oppressive Western nations. We read Margaret Mead and William Graham Sumner, who described morality in terms of naturalistic and cultural conventions. Morality, Sumner would state, is not objective but relative. Each culture has a unique set of values, and law is mer...
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