[jaguar]

I'm not sure on the definition of social relativism, my experience is with what I've known as methodological relativism which is I guess far softer, merely an attempt to objectively look at another culture while trying to proactively take your own biases into account. Rather useful when trying to study say the belief structure of communities in Ghana or the societal structure in the Caribbean. While I have and continue to enjoy using moral relativism from a devil's advocate point of view I don't think it's something I could wholeheartedly embrace. However things don't have to be absolutes. While I couldn't swallow that say, Female Genital Mutilation isn't wrong in a time where increasingly were confronted with a gross level of misunderstanding between particularly Islamic-based and western society on both sides the importance of methodological relativism I don't think can be overstated.