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SustainabiltiyPrincipleCh.10.pptxCMST 340: Sustainability Principle Chapter 10
PQ: Why is “Cooperating” the right behavior for people from all cultures?
Answer: SURVIVAL!!
CMST 340: Sustainability Principle
“IC” and Ethics:
Morality: customs/ traditions which regulate relationships and modes of behavior, patterns of thought and action
Ethics: matters of right and wrong, good and evil, virtue and vice
2 Broad Approaches:
Universalist: apply to all cultures
Relativist: actions culture-bound, each ideas on “right and wrong”
Ethical Relativism: extreme “anything goes!” form of ethnocentrism
CMST 340: Sustainability Principle
5 Specific Approaches:
Golden Law: applies to all (10 Commandments, Peace)
Golden Purse: “He rules who has the gold”
Golden Consequences: outcome of actions
Golden Mean: right behavior blend of opposites (cowardice- foolhardiness both extremes, “courage” happy medium)
Golden Rule: act toward others as we would have them act toward us
CMST 340: Sustainability Principle
Sustainability Principle:
Nature of Sustainability: Thinking about Forever
Metaethics: transcends all differences
Globalization: extends beyond the collective “ID” of any culture
Sustainability: kept in existence (maintained)
CMST 340: Sustainability Principle
Strategies of “IC” Sustainability
Tolerance: allowing/ respecting others
Trust: confidence that actions as expected or agreed upon
Resistance: any force that works against another culture, not violent or militant
All 3 Interconnected!!
CMST 340: Sustainability Principle
Formula for “IC” Sustainability
“The Golden Ratio”: a harmonious relationship between different cultures (W/W)
“IC” is a process whereby people from different cultures display mutual tolerance, trust, and resistance, sustaining their collective “ID”s and the overall process of their interaction.
(Stereotypes in Intercultural Comm. video clip)
CMST 340: Sustainability Principle
Short definition:
Sustainability Principle is Survival.
