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ethnocentrism
[ eth-noh-sen-triz-uhm ]
noun
- Sociology. the belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture.
- a tendency to view other ethnic or cultural groups from the perspective of one's own.
ethnocentrism
/ ˌɛθəʊˈɛˌٰɪə /
noun
- belief in the intrinsic superiority of the nation, culture, or group to which one belongs, often accompanied by feelings of dislike for other groups
ethnocentrism
- The belief that one's own culture is superior to all others and is the standard by which all other cultures should be measured.
Notes
Derived Forms
- ˌٳԴdzˈٰٲ, noun
- ˌٳԴˈԳٰ, adverb
- ˌٳԴˈԳٰ, adjective
Other yvlog Forms
- ٳ·Դ··ٰ adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of ethnocentrism1
Example Sentences
Steves's imperative to help Americans get over their ethnocentrism feels especially urgent in our current era of increasingly alarming isolationism.
In their book Taking America Back for God, Whitehead and Perry argue that Christian Nationalism “gives divine sanction to ethnocentrism and nativism.”
But recent events in Israel are continuing a long Zionist process that has been propelled by mixtures of a valid yearning for safety and extreme ethnocentrism, with terrible results.
We also controlled for respondents' reported attention to political news, their level of white ethnocentrism and their authoritarian leanings.
That is followed by Ethnoaesthetics, a word he coined to describe the resistance to cultural ethnocentrism.
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