Many Nonconformist Patterns Do Not Occur to Us Because

question 28

Multiple Choice

Many nonconformist patterns do not occur to us because

• A) we are culture bound; the patterns are not know to our society.
• B) Americans are quite relativistic in their views of other ways of doing things.
• C) what we see in other cultures we tend not to like because of ethnocentricity.
• D) conformity is so ingrained in our attitudes.

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