Ethnocentrism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ethnocentrism is the tendency to believe that one's own race or ethnic group is centrally important, and that all other ethnic groups are measured in relation to one's own. An individual will judge o...
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It is the tendency to judge other cultures [usually critically] according to the standards of one's own culture. . Or, as Merriam-Webster tells us, it means "the attitude that one's own group is superior." Ethnocentric people usually assume that their race, Many cultural stereotypes derive from ethnocentrism.
faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta/hi216/ethno.htm
Reasons why ethnocentrism or ethnocentric thinking is bad ... The opposite of ethnocentrism is xenocentrism which means preferring ideas and things from other cultures over ideas and things from your own culture. At the heart of xenocentrism is an assumption that other cultures are superior to your own.
home.snu.edu/~hculbert/ethno.htm
Ethnocentrism is the belief that one's own culture is superior to that of other cultures. It is a form of reductionism that reduces the "other way" of life to a distorted version of one's own.
www.tamu.edu/classes/cosc/choudhury/culture.html www.tamu.edu/classes/cosc/choudhury/culture.html
The humanities, in effect, humanize our understanding of other cultures, including the cultures of the past. They do this by showing the shared intellectual and artistic heritage with which people of all cultures have ... Attitudes that hinder cultural understanding include stereotyping, pre-judging, and ethnocentrism.
www.humanities-interactive.org/cultures/essay.html www.humanities-interactive.org/cultures/essay.html
I would bet, however, that if such a list is generated naively without undertaking a real study of cross-cultural variation in gender roles, the items on the list as the "worst atrocities" will mostly be customs of "the Other," and not those of European-tradition cultures.
www.research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/judging1.html
It was clear to me that we, as Americans, often fail to learn about other cultures, become afraid of what we don't know, then either dismiss the culture or pretend it doesn't impact us. We forget in our "pull-yourself- up-by-your-own-bootstraps" world that we are truly living in an interdependent world.
www.research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/judging2.html
Ethnocentrism is conceptualized as a basic Kantian form of intuition that plays aknowledge-producing role. Although all cultures have developed their particular forms of intuition, the focus of this analysis is on Western ethnocentrism, which is discussed in four ... These are not shared by other traditions.
www.sociologyindex.com/ethnocentrism.htm www.sociologyindex.com/ethnocentrism.htm
 Chapter 229:  Dealing with Patients from Other Cultures ... Biomedicine must use approaches that recognize and account for the views and values of the individual and of cultures, not only in determining the nature of a patient's problems but also in describing solutions.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=cm.chapter.6682
Claiming Western culture trumps all other cultures is hardly an ethnocentric assertion. You don't see millions of Americans running across the border into Mexico for a better life do you? You don't see hundreds of Europeans floating across the Mediterranean for a better life do you?
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