LSAT 116 | Section 4 | Reading Comprehension: Q13

RC Question 13 Explanation

DISCUSSION: It’s very important to know what this means. The second version is the proposal in paragraph three. So the criticism is in paragraph four: the critics argued that neutrality was a Western value. So we have to criticize that somehow.

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1. CORRECT. This is devastating. If this were true, then we could never understand any foreign culture, because we couldn’t understand their values.
   Lines 58-61 recommend adopting the values of other cultures. If this answer choice were true, then that would be impossible. 
2. That’s nice. But it doesn’t change the fact that we should adopt those cultures’ values when we study them, according to the critics from the fourth paragraph.
3. So? Just because some cultures don’t listen to the critics’ advice doesn’t mean the critics are wrong.
4. This talks about understanding one’s own culture. The critics were talking about understanding foreign cultures.
5. This sounds like exactly what the critics are arguing for. It isn’t though: no one from the passage talks about appreciating a culture. So this doesn’t work as a critique of the critics.