<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> Cultural relativism is the idea that a person's beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person's own culture, rather than judged against the criteria of another . </P> <P> It was established as axiomatic in anthropological research by Franz Boas in the first few decades of the 20th century and later popularized by his students . Boas first articulated the idea in 1887: "civilization is not something absolute, but...is relative, and...our ideas and conceptions are true only so far as our civilization goes". However, Boas did not coin the term . Neither did the 21st century relativist James Lawrence Wray - Miller . </P>

The principle that each culture should be judged by its own standards is termed