There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made a career, to the effect that the ultimate value of studying other cultures was the use we could make of them to reconstruct our own - a heady kind of intellectual imperialism, as if the final meaning of others' lives was their significance for us.
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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