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Question 20

A cross-cultural psychiatric study found that clinical practitioners using Western diagnostic manuals (such as the DSM) to assess individuals from East Asian backgrounds frequently diagnosed somatic symptoms—such as persistent fatigue and physical pain—as a clinical depressive disorder, whereas indigenous practitioners viewed these symptoms as normal cultural expressions of interpersonal harmony disruption rather than a medicalised psychiatric illness.

Outline one way this finding illustrates ethnocentrism.

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