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ethnocentrism

[ US /ˌɛθnoʊˈsɛntɹɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group

How To Use ethnocentrism In A Sentence

  • Related to the problems of anachronism and ethnocentrism is the distinction between emic and etic terms.
  • Not only is this view reductive, it reinscribes the ethnocentrism of the Britain's imperialist past under the guise of making a ‘safer’ present through the same war-mongering means.
  • On the other hand, modern Western ethnocentrism and the exclusivity closely related to the formation and Christian culture.
  • Rejecting the ethnocentrism characteristic of an earlier generation of anthropologists, Levi-Strauss refused to think of tribal cultures as primitive.
  • The best way to combat ethnocentrism is to encourage empathy at all levels of the firm.
  • The comments reveal an ethnocentrism in judging lower-class behavior using middle-class standards.
  • They tend to regard opposition to multiculturalism and attempts at assimilation as irrational prejudice or unjustifiable ethnocentrism.
  • Her family background perhaps also helps to explain her interest in displaced and marginal people, her horror of nationalism and ethnocentrism.
  • Related to the problems of anachronism and ethnocentrism is the distinction between emic and etic terms.
  • Regarding the aforementioned statement about our history with Native-Americans, the film is not so much anti-military, as it is anti-genocide, and anti-manifest destiny, making it thus anti-ethnocentrism and anti-overbearing theocentrism. Critics: 'Avatar' is anti-military & anti-religion
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