How To Use Ethnocentric In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Native Americans consider this term ethnocentric and insulting.
Examiner California Headlines
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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
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Hence, his message was theocentric rather than ethnocentric, anti-Semitic, or anything else.
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We assert that it is culturally ethnocentric and logically absurd to relegate a universal phenomenon to the pathological domain.
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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.
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Teaching American history - our common story - as opposed to group-identity history, is rejected as ethnocentric and jingoistic.
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The first generation of western historians to address the western environment as an agent in shaping the region reflected the ethnocentric preconceptions of their time.
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Such ethnocentric representation of the indigenous and the aboriginal suggests the poet's lack of sympathy with her environment - that is, her estrangement.
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Instead of wit, he interpreted my jokes as racist and ethnocentric misinformation.
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Will Herberg argued that American civil religion essentially was idolatrous worship of itself, merely propagating an ethnocentric American way of life around the world.
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The labels "ethnocentric" and "elitist," used by Professor Barraclough to describe Elias's orientation, are as misleading as they are wrong.
Elias Defended
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By its very definition, the perception inherent in Orientalism is racist, imperialist and ethnocentric.
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Nor should this be seen purely as a matter of cultural imperialism or ethnocentric prejudice.
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We have good evidence and proof, "he said in his opening statement at the sought to portray the Serbs as the victims, blaming the former Croat leader Franjo Tudjman and the former Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegović of pursuing" ethnocentric "aims, with the desire to create Croatian and Bosnian Muslim states respectively.
The Guardian World News
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They are totally unconscious of the latent racism which such a campaign evokes in countries where ethnocentric prejudice is so deep-rooted.
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Her work is open to the criticism that it is ethnocentric.
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In short, ethnocentric in some ways, yes, but Champlain’s attitudes were grounded in ideas of universal justice, faith, and peace.
Champlain's Dream
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Paul Johnson, in his 1985 “A History of the Jews” gave a long list of prominent Jews from Heine onward who saw themselves as assimilated and nonethnic when they were young men, but then became more ethnocentric and concerned with Jewish identity as they aged.
Matthew Yglesias » A Job for Norm
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Pluralists reflect an ethnocentric view of the global system.
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The British had a robustly ethnocentric view of their new sports.
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Such examination and subsequent awareness is not always easy because people have a tendency to be blind to their bias or ethnocentric perspectives.
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For we are exemplifying the attitude we claim to despise; we would rather die than be ethnocentric, but ethnocentrism is precisely the conviction that one would rather die than share certain beliefs.
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Even as the artworks probe the limits of our most primitive ethnocentric biases, they affirm our place on the planet as the dominant species - having the power to discriminate over other life forms.
Spread ArtCulture: Patricia Piccinini's World of Creatures Great & Small
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This does help to counter a traditional overemphasis on western societies and an ethnocentric bias in the treatment of other societies.
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Nevertheless, many highly ethnocentric societies are not racist.
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Beyond this, the editor made efforts to address and correct common misconceptions and biases found in ethnocentric texts and media coverage about the region.
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I wonder when you will see fit to take our government's ethnocentric and intolerant activities to task?
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He argued that it is too simplistic, and indeed ethnocentric, to dismiss such peoples as irrational and unscientific.
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Cross argues that dismissing music as a useless frill smacks of ethnocentricity.
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It's a mental disease that infects people with the egocentric and ethnocentric delusion that they are superior, and they justify themselves by taking isolated words and phrases from thier relligious scriptures, whether they be in the Torah or Tanach or Bible or Qur'an.
Religious Fundamentalism in Israel
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This manifests, in my opinion, a clear-cut case of cultural and ethnocentric chauvinism on the part of the European scholars.
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Ethnocentric framing is an outdated attempt at racism.
Matthew Yglesias » The Spending Tug
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I would have expected more discussion on intellectuals as producers of ethnocentric symbols of exclusion, ethnic self-aggrandizement, self-pity, and exalted martyrology.
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Paul Johnson, in his 1985 “A History of the Jews” gave a long list of prominent Jews from Heine onward who saw themselves as assimilated and nonethnic when they were young men, but then became more ethnocentric and concerned with Jewish identity as they aged.
Matthew Yglesias » A Job for Norm
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Either she'll be touched to be rediscovered or she'll be very, very indignant and hurl ethnocentric epithets.
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However, while I succeeded in producing a space for the validation of local voices, I am less certain that this in any way challenged parochial and ethnocentric perspectives.
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If we didn't want blacks to engage in ethnocentric politics, well, our ancestors shouldn't have dragged them here in chains.
December 2004
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In the United States, an obscene alliance of corporate supremacists, desperate labor unions, certain ethnocentric Latino activist organizations and a majority of our elected officials in Washington works diligently to keep our borders open, wages suppressed and the American people all but helpless to resist the crushing financial and economic burden created by the millions of illegal aliens who crash our borders each year. advertisement
Think Progress » In Any Language, Sen. Coburn’s Amendment Should Make You Sick
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We are proudly independent, ethnocentric, xenophobic, and nativistic, he argued, while showing off his flashy vocabulary.
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We should not be ethnocentric, a term drawn from anthropology, which tells us more about the meaning of openness.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND
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Although individuation is viewed as the optimal path to identity development in some cultures, this is ethnocentric and biased when viewed in the context of other cultures across the world.
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The new communitarian thinking can be one way of accepting ethnic debates without sounding ethnocentric.
