Despite finding the Cutural Relativism article rather frustrating to read, (if the theory is correct then we must accept that we cannot judge anything as being better than anything else and so what we think of as progress is in fact not progress at all but instead these changes we lable progress are a violation of society's rules and therefore immoral... so on and so forth) I found the "What Can Be Learned" section of the Cultural Relativism article interesting. "Cultural Relativism warns us about the danger of assuming that all our preferences are based on some absolute rational standard." I agree that they most certainly are not. Who decided that it is morally acceptable to consume certain animals while it is unacceptable to consume others? The fact is that there is no objective right or wrong. Our own ideas about what is acceptable and what is not are only perceptions based on the things we have learned from our own society.
I think that the most important lesson to be learned from the Cultural Relativism theory is the value of keeping an open mind. We are greatly influenced by the viewpoints of the people around us, and when we adopt these views as are own we often settle in our ways, refusing to even entertain the idea that we could be wrong. And whether we realize it or not, we often think anything different from what we know is wrong. I believe that the most valuable tool a person a person can have is an open mind. The sooner we accept that we do not know absolutely everything, the better.