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The Power of Perspective In our day and age, the issue of cultural relativism is a very perplexing topic to discuss. When can one say that another's actions are right or wrong? Does the fact of intellectual superiority have any say in the matter of who has the right to interfere with other cultures? Well, after reading and analyzing the book Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, I realize that I am a cultural relativist …

…picking on cultural differences. But what we must learn is that our faults and weaknesses come and are decided from how we alone act and not what the other cultures with their own perspectives think. If people would just learn to accept the customs of other groups and try not to be so meticulous with details and differences, then the world as a whole will become a much less complicated and harmonious place to live.