Cultural relativism received wide recognition in the 1940s and 1950s as a
reaction to Nazism and ethnocentrism (Buswell, 2006). On the value of cultural
relativism, Redfield comments that “It is very hard to say that culture A
produces more suffering and frustration than does culture B without saying
also that in this respect you prefer culture B. […] It is easy enough to be objective
toward objects; but the human individual refuses to be only an object