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Definition of Ethnocentrism
1. Noun. Belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group.
Definition of Ethnocentrism
1. Noun. The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own culture. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ethnocentrism
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Medical Definition of Ethnocentrism
1. The tendency to evaluate other groups according to the values and standards of one's own ethnic group, especially with the conviction that one's own ethnic group is superior to the other groups. Origin: G. Ethnos, race, tribe, + kentron, centre of a circle (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ethnocentrism
Literary usage of Ethnocentrism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jacques Loeb: His Science and Social Activism and Their Philosophical by Charles Rasmussen, Rick Tilman (1998)
"... ZIONISM AND ethnocentrism INTRODUCTION Loeb defended Asiatics against the
exclusion laws and discriminatory practices that threatened them and he took ..."
2. Impacts of Disasters on Environment and Development: International Cooperation by M. A. Pramanik (1993)
"ethnocentrism: Projection of one's own culture, ideological beliefs, doctrine,
... Basis is ethnocentrism. Facilitated by closed systems and parochialism. ..."
3. The Culture of Violence by Kumar Rupesinghe (1994)
"However, in spite of such Indian ethnocentrism concerning whites, ... When this
came, it was in reaction to European ethnocentrism and discrimination. ..."
4. The City: Urban Communities and Their Problems by Alan S. Berger (1978)
"ethnocentrism and violence. Even without the institutionalized expression of
ethnocentrism, the ecological processes of invasion, competition, ..."
5. Conceptions of Social Inquiry by J. J. Snyman (1993)
"claim that it is "impossible to step out of our own skins"; "ethnocentrism" as
the view that truth and rationality are simply terms which our society uses ..."
6. Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs by William Graham Sumner (1906)
"ethnocentrism is the technical name for this view of things in which one's own
group is the center of everything, and all others are scaled and rated with ..."
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