Which of the following is true about forgiveness and intercultural relationships? forgiveness is an effective strategy to resolve intercultural conflicts because it requires people to use knowledge to suppress their emotions. forgiveness has not been proven as an effective way to deal with intercultural conflicts. forgiveness can sometimes reconcile intercultural problems because, after forgiving, people will no longer be consumed by the wrongs that others have done to them. forgiveness is the easiest way for people to resolve problems in intercultural relationships.

Forgiveness can sometimes help reconcile intercultural problems because, after forgiving, people will no longer be consumed by the wrongs that others have done to them.

Explanation:

Forgiveness can sometimes help reconcile intercultural problems because, after forgiving, people will no longer be consumed by the wrongs that others have done to them. To forgive is not to forget. To forgive someone else you must pass through various phases. It’s not an easy process; but in the end is the most gratifying. By forgiving someone, you no longer hold that grudge that consumed you and you start feeling better and relax. Intercultural relationships are hard because you need to learn everything from the other person (culture wise). You need to put yourself in the shoes of the other person to see and understand the complete picture. And if something goes wrong (or someone gets offended), people need to talk it through and forgive those mistakes if they want to move forward with their relationship.

as university of miami psychologists debra lieberman and adam smith pointed out in a recent article in the journal current directions in psychological science, humans have social and psychological mechanisms to deter incest. with very few exceptions, marriages between brothers and sisters and between parents and their children are verboten in every human culture. the primary psychological anti-incest mechanism is the yuck response. even the idea of sex with their mom or dad, bro or sis is upsetting to most people. the psychologist jonathan haidt has found that nearly everyone is repelled by the prospect of brother-sister sex, even in hypothetical situations in which there is no chance of pregnancy).

the biological cost of incest

this raises an interesting question: just what’s so bad about incest? sure, having sex with your dad or your sister seems gross — but why? some anthropologists have argued that incest taboos are learned social conventions. this explanation, however, doesn’t make sense to me as it does not explain the widespread existence of anti-incest mechanisms in creatures ranging from cockroaches to chimpanzees. second, the incest taboo is about as close to a universal law as human moral rules get.

why should mechanisms to avoid incest be so widespread both in nature and across human societies? the answer is simple. the problem with having sex close with relatives is that there is an astonishingly high chance that your offspring will be born with a serious birth defect.