... Manual of Mental Disorders). So we can see that with time and different cultures specifications of abnormalities can change. The first method is defining abnormality is statistical in frequency. This is the most obvious way to define abnormality. Statistical infrequency is based on the idea that certain behaviours are statistically rare in the population. It is assumed that most of us do not stray away from the norm or the average. A problem with the method involving statistical infrequency around the idea of cultural relativism would be that Asian people do not go to the doctors for depression whereas white people do. Due to the way Asians have been brought up by their parents, they think their depression should be sorted out within the family and that there is no need to go to the doctors. Therefore it doesn't look like many Asians get depressed when they do, so this is the ...

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