Deferment of PLUS Loans. Note that details provided on this page reference loans made under the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP). Effective July 1, 2010, all new federal student loans come directly from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) under the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program (Federal Direct Loans).
Cultural Relativism vs Ethnocentrism. Cultural relativism and ethnocentrism are the two flip sides of one coin where both of these rather philosophical notions are intertwined. Ethnocentrism landed as a concept amongst different nations earlier than cultural relativism which got to be devised to counter ethnocentrism. And, the most significant feature related to these notions and ideas is the fact that both of these come with specific sect of followers which can be specific individuals and specific nations as well.
CULTURAL ETHNOCENTRISM. 1  Ethnocentrism is the belief that one's own culture is superior to that of other cultures. 2  It is a form of reductionism that reduces the other way of life to a distorted version of one's own.HEORY OF CULTURAL DETERMINISM. 1  The position that the ideas, meanings, beliefs and values people learn as members of society determines human nature. 2  People are what they learn. 3  Optimistic version of cultural determinism place no limits on the abilities of human beings to do or to be whatever they want.