Cosmopolitanism

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Central to anthropology - the study of people throughout all time and everywhere around the world - is cultural relativism. Cultural relativism is the idea that a person's beliefs and practices should be understood based on that person's own culture. Proponents of cultural relativism also tend to argue that the norms and values of one culture should not be evaluated using the norms and values of another. 

For more than two decades, I taught a course titled Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective that critiqued the Race concept through a detailed examination of its intellectual history and offered anthropological alternatives to dividing people into falsely biological categories. See details under the tab for Anti-racism. 

I have been advocating for coexistence as a means of working through social divides among people, see the tab for Coexistence.

And, since it intersects with my personal identity, I have struggled against anti-Jewish racism, see the tab for Antisemitism as well as for the tab for my research  Jewish heritage.