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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by cynicism [Person typing cynicism on laptop]

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we'd make a joke but well we know you wouldn't laugh here's a question. Dianna

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believes her culture is superior to any other in the world and doesn't want to

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interact with people outside of her own culture because she believes them to be

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inferior Diana exhibits which of the following.. and here are our potential answers

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stuck-up snobbery is not an option here

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well right off the bat we can eliminate A - a cross-cultural [Girls sitting on sofa eating]

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perspective is one in which someone can observe and compare differences between

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in and among cultures kind of sounds like what Diana is doing right? not quite, the

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term is meant to imply objectivity and as with all empirical research it holds [Teacher discussing objectivity]

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no inherent judgment or bias and we don't know about you but anytime someone

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calls us inferior we feel a little judged, words hurt Diana... C isn't what

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we're looking for either while it's clear that the only individual's opinion [Girl meditating on living room floor]

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Diana cares about is Diana's that's not quite what individualism is all about

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it's actually more of a social and philosophical outlook that emphasizes [Diana teaching social and philosophical outlook]

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the worth of an individual and believes that the rights of the individual should

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come before the interests of the collective while we're sure Diana firmly

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believes the rights of Diana should come before anything else this isn't the best [Diana protesting Diana's rights]

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answer choice here so we can nix it from our list we can also get rid of answer E

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collectivism well collectivism is the exact opposite of individualism it's a

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social outlook that emphasizes the significance of the group over the

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individual think the collective good what's best for the group is best for [Diana clone appears from cloning machine]

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the individual all right and while Diana clearly values her culture ie her group

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this still isn't the best option on our list and not to be a debbie downer but

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cynicism definitely isn't what we're looking for

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either cynicism refers to the belief that people are motivated by [Lots of Diana clones appear from machine]

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self-interest and while we could make the argument that Diana's view is

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cynical would there really be any point anyway cynicism still isn't the best

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choice.....The best choice here is

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B ethnocentrism, otherwise known as a belief that one's culture is better than [Diana and clones protesting with flag of Diana]

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all others otherwise known as Diana.com an ethnocentric Diana

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person uses their own culture as a standard and then compares and contrasts

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it to other cultures in an effort to demonstrate their cultures superiority [Diana using megaphone in the street with clones]

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sounds absurd, unfair and inherently biased yeah that's because it is but

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absurd, unfair and inherently biased-ism doesn't roll off the tongue as easy as

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ethnocentrism so now if you'd excuse us we're going to go look into cynicism a

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bit more it sounds like something we might be interested in but it [Boy punching laptop screen in frustration]

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probably won't work out

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