Ethical evaluations and prescriptions of human behavior can be observed through the principle ethical elements analysis. For the purpose of significant ethical problems overcome, one is to take into account the values and traditions promoted in a particular culture viewing it through ethical norms.
The problem of intercultural misunderstanding and conflict is considered to be a centralized ethical issue; it is necessary to stress, that ‘respect for persons’ can be the key way to problem resolution. It can be explained by the following concepts it covers: every person is treated as an autonomous agent; in case of diminished autonomy, the individual is provided with certain protection. Besides, ‘respect for persons’ covers the basic moral requirements to be introduced within every culture, that is the necessity to acknowledge autonomy and protection for its diminishing. It is necessary to underline the fact that this ethical resolution covers the necessity to provide weight to the choices and opinions of autonomous persons. The basic ethical problem is concentrated around the lack of respect expressed by the representatives of different cultures, which leads to limitations and discrimination of persons’ rights and freedoms.
One more resolution to ethical cultural problems is based on the concept of justice promoted in society. It is necessary to underline the fact that this concept should be expressed through common equality in society. The analysis of European and American social development gave an opportunity to see profound problems in ethical inequality and injustice, expressed through the rejection of received benefits or the imposing of some burden unduly. The principal ways out of the problem area to be focused on human subject research helping to find, understand, and resolute the depth of the problem. Thus, research subjects’ analysis can become helpful in the determination of systematic selection of some classes, for example, ethic and racial minorities, or welfare patients; it helps to identify the classes’ manipulability, or compromised position.
Besides, the aspect of ‘beneficence’ can be considered one of the central resolutions to intercultural ethical problems; it is based on harms minimization and benefits maximization of personalities. This principle is considered to be centralized in the sphere of medicine and education. The benefits system improvement can lead to the development of new skills and knowledge; the representatives of other cultures can easily overcome the state of cultural shock experiencing this method of ethical resolution.
The analysis of intercultural problems demonstrated the idea that it is not an easy task to provide complete ethical stabilization on the international level. It is necessary to analyze the impact of Japanese animation on the American youth; dramatic influence and pathos resulting from this art promotion in the US society leave a print on the development of American culture. This art shows the transformation of older traditions of the nation into the world of modernity demonstrating the youth’s emotional involvement. It is one more important ethical element to be disclosed to students; Japanese animation is the reflection of major humanity life topics, such as pain, death, loneliness, and living without the parents. That is why major ethical problems concerning these themes are to be resolved through their entire understanding by modern American youth.
It is necessary to underline the fact that the examination of basic ethical problems and methods of their decision provided a new vision on modern cultural gaps to be filled by contemporary generations.
References
The Belmont Report. Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the protection of human subjects of research. Regulations and Ethical Guidelines. Web.