ethnocentric

How To Use ethnocentric In A Sentence

• This has led to the rejection of Sephardic Jewish Humanism as formulated by Maimonides and an affirmation of an ethnocentric Jewish chauvinism based on the magical mysticism of Kabbalistic theurgy. David Shasha: Dangerous Mystic Motifs in Judaism
• In particular, among white voters being ethnocentric is associated — independent of self-described ideology and other factors — with decreased support for means-tested welfare: Matthew Yglesias » Ethnocentrism and Small Government Hypocrisy
• Equating the week with a seven-day rhythm is a result of an ethnocentric bias that is challenged through an examination of the surprisingly wide variability of the week's length in different parts of the world.
• Amber (ethnocentric, mythic): The Amber Altitude began about 5,000 years ago, and indicates a worldview that is traditionalist and mythic in nature—and mythic worldviews are almost always held as absolute (this stage of development is often called absolutistic). INTEGRAL POLITIC
• Native Americans consider this term ethnocentric and insulting. Examiner California Headlines
• Contrary to the absurd claims about "Eurocentrism," Europeans are traditionally the least ethnocentric people on the planet, which is why we invented sciences such as archaeology because only we possessed the scholarly objectivity to do so. Undefined
• Hence, his message was theocentric rather than ethnocentric, anti-Semitic, or anything else.
• We assert that it is culturally ethnocentric and logically absurd to relegate a universal phenomenon to the pathological domain.
• Now, this is a kind of 'tolerance' which wasn't really discussed by John Gray in his Two Faces of Liberalism, and it is a tolerance that is not only ethnocentric but has nothing at all to do with any genuine respect for the customs and moeurs of others.
• Teaching American history - our common story - as opposed to group-identity history, is rejected as ethnocentric and jingoistic.