disapproval If you describe something as ethnocentric, you disagree with it because it is based on the belief that one particular race or nationality of people is superior to all others. Her work is open to the criticism that it is ethnocentric. based on the idea that your own race, nation, group etc is better than any other - used in order to show disapproval
{s} viewing one's own ethnic group as superior to others, giving preference according to ethnic background
Tendency to interpret or evaluate other cultures in terms of one's own. Generally considered a human universal, it is evident in the widespread practice of labeling outsiders as "savages" or "barbarians" simply because their societies differ from those of the dominant culture. Early anthropologists often reflected this tendency, as did Sir John Lubbock, who characterized all nonliterate peoples as being without religion, and Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, who found them to have a "prelogical mentality" because their worldview was unlike that of western Europe. The opposite of ethnocentrism is cultural relativism, the understanding of cultural phenomena within the context in which they occur
An attitude that one's own culture, society, or group is inherently superior to all others Ethnocentrism means an inability to appreciate others whose culture may include a different racial group, ethnic group, religion, morality, language, political system, economic system, etc It also means an inability to see a common humanity and human condition facing all women and men in all cultures and societies beneath the surface variations in social and cultural traditions
Seeing the world through me-colored glasses, so that your culture always looks best and becomes the pattern everyone else should fit into Sometimes what we think of as the Gospel truth is merely the Gospel contextualized into our culture By no means is ethnocentrism restricted to the majority culture in a country, but it is a nearly universal tendency among humans
an attitude of cultural superiority which implies that ones own culture is better than some other culture It is the basis of racism, nationalism, and tribalism (Van Rheenen 1996b, 98)
The universal tendency for people to view their own group as the center of the universe, to interpret other social units from the perspective of their own group, and to reject persons who are culturally dissimilar similar
The view that the practices of one's own culture are natural and correct, while perceiving the practices of other cultures as odd, amusing, inferior, and/or immoral