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ethnocentrism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | partiality, partisanship |
Examples of ethnocentrism
ethnocentrism
But the brouhaha over the naming of USNS Cesar Chavez smacks of ethnocentrism.
From the battleland.blogs.time.com
Ethnocentrism drips from your words and drowns out any valid point in your comment.
From the latimes.com
That racism and ethnocentrism are, and have always been, part of the debate.
From the edition.cnn.com
The degree of ethnocentrism that's current on these blogs is appalling.
From the economist.com
Please please, let's stop the ignorance and the blatant ethnocentrism.
From the learning.blogs.nytimes.com
Robustness of ethnocentrism to changes in inter-personal interactions.
From the en.wikipedia.org
A 2011 paper in PNAS suggested that ethnocentrism may be mediated by the oxytocin hormone.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Neo-Confucianism also introduced elements of ethnocentrism into Japan.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Hi Sfdan, the Jewish ethnocentrism article is currently up for deletion.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group
- (ethnocentric) centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own
- Ethnocentrism is the tendency to believe that one's ethnic or cultural group is centrally important, and that all other groups are measured in relation to one's own. ...
- The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own culture
- (ETHNOCENTRIC) seeing one's own group's way of doing things as the normal and desirable way; assessing other people's ways of doing things from the perspective of one's own values.
- (Ethnocentric) Oriented towards a national or local perspective.
- (ethnocentric) A culturally based bias allowing a person to judge events and peopleas good or correct when they are similar to events and people in his or her own culture.
- (ethnocentric) Relating to racial characteristics. Districting which intends or results in disadvantages to specific racial groups is unconstitutional. Jump: Supreme Court
- Seeing the world through self-colored glasses, so that your culture always looks best and becomes the pattern everyone else should fit into. By no means is ethnocentrism restricted to the majority culture in a country, but it is a nearly universal tendency among humans.
