Why do we tend to see
our own culture's norms as important and other cultures' norms as potentially
strange, wrong or "abnormal"?

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Answer

Cultural norms are
largely arbitrary and decided upon by the people within that culture to serve
specific functions

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Our own cultural
norms are familiar to us and so we use them to judge the norms and practices of
other cultures

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We are all inherently
prejudiced against other cultures and their norms

Answer

All of the above

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