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[Archive] Is Ehtnocentrism Good? The 'Big' Debates ... Is Ehtnocentrism Good? Not really... I believe you have your definition of ethnocentrism wrong. It is NOT the 'preference of one's own culture and people to those of another' it’s the ideology that one's own culture and people is SUPERIOR to those of another.
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Shifting from language to myths and folktales, we find a good example of ethnocentrism in the creation myth of the Cherokee Indians. ...
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Ethnocentrism also distorts communication between human beings. Ethnocentric thinking causes us to make wrong assumptions about other people because . . . Ethnocentrism leads us to make premature judgments. "They" may not be very ...
http://home.snu.edu/%7Ehculbert/ethno.htm
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What is the difference, as you see it now, between xenophobia and ethnocentrism? ... Xenophobia is when you discriminate of have a hatred for someone who is foreign or of a different race. Ethnocentrism is when you believe a race is more superior to your own.
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Here is a quote by Conrad Kottak that I think explains ethnocentrism very good: The tendency to view one’s own culture as best and to judge the behavior and beliefs of people in other societies by one’s own standards." Here are some examples of ethnocentrism: The very question of if the Norwegians have a Norwegian...
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Browse > Home / General News, Op-ed / Second Life “Winter” Festival – good old ethnocentrism ... Ethnocentrism at its very best. Bah humbug. ... Nurse Staff:Pretty good..I used to read al...
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www.metaversejournal.com/2007/12/05/second-life-winter-festival-good-old-ethnocentrism/
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Part of the problem has to do with ethnocentrism, the polar opposite of cultural relativism. Both concepts, ethnocentrism and cultural relativism, can be placed as polar ... Those who make a society have no more difficulty in defining reality than they have in defining good conduct and bad. But this is within a society.
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Ethnocentrism and values are like the spine of cultures. It separates culture from culture and how we look at each other. Ethnocentrism and values can bring good and bad, it may manifest itself in attitudes of superiority or hostility toward members of other groups and is sometimes expressed in discrimination or violence.
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The above definition of ethnocentrism is as good as any, but one should keep in mind that the concept itself is highly problematic - few have attempted to link "ethnocentrism" with actual "behavioral traits." In addition, racism has been used interchangeably with ethnocentrism.
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