Cultural Universals' Effect on Humanism

When we identify the cultural universals of the people that have a greater impact on our existence it gives us an understanding and a greater appreciation for the value of our being. Not saying that I support ethnocentrism (Nowak & Laird, Introduction: What is the Anthropological Approach, 2010), but by allowing an equal view of the combined opinions of each culture will present a bigger picture of humanism.  Some cultures just tend to stand out more than others causing us to pay closer attention to all that it has to offer to human nature. As the text points out, "Grasping the fullest range of human culture will inevitably lead to universally valid knowledge of what it means to be a cultural-bearing human (Nowak & Laird, Introduction: What is the Anthropological Approach, 2010)."