If eating a boiled duck egg with developed embryo in it is considered taboo for an American, the same cannot be said for the people in the Philippines, as the consumption of boiled duck embryo is considerably a unique piece of its food culture and history. Americans should not always think of themselves, as an epitome of cultural and social correctness and consider the uniqueness of the rest of the people in the world as disgustingly different. This is because the world and its nations of various cultures were not founded from the same political and social principle of hegemony as the United States. Americans should believe in a unique worldview because each culture was founded from a collective specimen of the people’s personality (Ahmed). Furthermore, what Americans believed to be the truth is different from culture to culture. Therefore, the laws and rights of one culture is not the same in another.
Americans should look into these differences in order to uphold the essence of mutual respect. For instance, the United States is constantly the target of terrorism attacks, but one would think that out of all the countries in the world, it is always the Untied States that comes first in the target list. The root cause of this problem is the perceived interventions made by Americans on international issues that they believed to deviate from its own political principles. However, countries such as Iraq and the Philippines in which the U.S. took the initiative to intervene never wanted the Western ideologies (McClay). Imposition of universal ideology at the expense of thousand of lives cannot be considered as the moral truth.
Works Cited
Ahmed, Ishtiaq. "Op-ed: Cultural relativism of human rights." Print.
MacClay, Wilfred M. "The Founding of Nations." Issue 1; Should Americans Believe in a Unique American Mission (2006): n. pag. Print.
