Back to basics… How our personal context changes how we view the world

Back in school, here I am again doing some readings. The one I am currently reading is;

Agar, M. Who are you to do this? The Professional Stranger

This article pretty much discusses how ethnography has been negatively impacted by certain methodologies (or lack of) and how the ethnographers own culture greatly impacts any study. This is something that we never think about in the Western world… In the Western world we are of the mindset that we are the “most” cultured and thusly we compare everyone to our own culture and in turn have the view that our way is the only way.