Shannon notes that women in some cultures voluntarily alter their bodies with sometimes painful piercings that look weird from the point of view of her culture.She takes from this that women in those cultures must be horribly oppressed compared with women in her own culture.Shannon's position might be best interpreted as:

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Shannon's perspective reflects ethnocentrism, which is the tendency to view one's own culture as superior and to judge other cultures from the perspective of one's own culture. Her assumption that women in other cultures who engage in body modification must be horribly oppressed because it is not typical in her own culture illustrates this bias.

Shannon Notes That Women in Some Cultures Voluntarily Alter Their