The rationality in a belief

Le Penseur, Auguste Rodin.

About a week ago I stayed almost one hour talking to my Anthropology’s teacher, after the class, about the subject I am now relating this text with. I confess, at a first sight it was not easy for me to accept further than a perspective, a illogical supposition I thought, not fitting in my previous notion of rationality and belief. I was used to see what is rational as what is logical although without considering the variable that a premise on which a reasoning is grounded can be invalid without the cognitive processes of its construction (reasoning) being irrational. Clarifying, a belief is rational in a certain social context, in another words, the shape of the belief itself is logical inside a specific social context although the content of it can be easily opined, validated or invalidated. “If the sense of any element depends on its place in the whole, out of context the element will have no sense and won’t be able to be compared with a same element, taken from its context in other society (…)” expresses the idea. We are socialized, standardized from the moment of our birth, and we will never be able to completely take off those clothes. Ethnocentrism is therefore intrinsically related to our individuality as cultured beings and displays an important role in our perspective about other cultures and their believes. Its imperative for us to not impose our pattern over someone.