A little behind

So today I am finally getting around to getting my blogs done. A few weeks ago in sociology we began our new unit about culture. We learned about egocentrism or the feeling like your culture is dominant when faced against a different culture. We used the example in class of the Danish mother who left their child outside of a restaurant on how she felt it was the right thing and was upset that she got in trouble for it.
I have been egocentric when I had  gone to china a few years ago. When I was there the group I was in went to one of the local market places. This place can be compared to an american version of a mall but it was different in many ways. The different stores were all very clustered together and the merchants in the shops have very aggressive efforts of trying to get you to come to their shop. I remember that when I was walking through this i was thinking about how better and organized this was in america and how much better it was then this. I never took intro account that this was the normal way of life for the people down there. I feel like being egocentric is a good thing as long as we keep it to ourselves. If everyone went out and expressed their egocentrism there wold always be a never ending argument on who's culture is better than who's.