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Definition of ethnocentric in English: ethnocentricadjective ˌɛθnə(ʊ)ˈsɛntrɪkˌɛθnoʊˈsɛntrɪk Evaluating other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture. 种族（或民族）中心主义的；种族（或民族、文化）优越感的 Example sentencesExamples - Although individuation is viewed as the optimal path to identity development in some cultures, this is ethnocentric and biased when viewed in the context of other cultures across the world.
- Beyond this, the editor made efforts to address and correct common misconceptions and biases found in ethnocentric texts and media coverage about the region.
- Equating the week with a seven-day rhythm is a result of an ethnocentric bias that is challenged through an examination of the surprisingly wide variability of the week's length in different parts of the world.
- We are proudly independent, ethnocentric, xenophobic, and nativistic, he argued, while showing off his flashy vocabulary.
- However, while I succeeded in producing a space for the validation of local voices, I am less certain that this in any way challenged parochial and ethnocentric perspectives.
- Nevertheless, many highly ethnocentric societies are not racist.
- Teaching American history - our common story - as opposed to group-identity history, is rejected as ethnocentric and jingoistic.
- This does help to counter a traditional overemphasis on western societies and an ethnocentric bias in the treatment of other societies.
- By its very definition, the perception inherent in Orientalism is racist, imperialist and ethnocentric.
- For we are exemplifying the attitude we claim to despise; we would rather die than be ethnocentric, but ethnocentrism is precisely the conviction that one would rather die than share certain beliefs.
- I wonder when you will see fit to take our government's ethnocentric and intolerant activities to task?
- Nor should this be seen purely as a matter of cultural imperialism or ethnocentric prejudice.
- This manifests, in my opinion, a clear-cut case of cultural and ethnocentric chauvinism on the part of the European scholars.
- The first generation of western historians to address the western environment as an agent in shaping the region reflected the ethnocentric preconceptions of their time.
- Such examination and subsequent awareness is not always easy because people have a tendency to be blind to their bias or ethnocentric perspectives.
- Such ethnocentric representation of the indigenous and the aboriginal suggests the poet's lack of sympathy with her environment - that is, her estrangement.
- They are totally unconscious of the latent racism which such a campaign evokes in countries where ethnocentric prejudice is so deep-rooted.
- The new communitarian thinking can be one way of accepting ethnic debates without sounding ethnocentric.
- We assert that it is culturally ethnocentric and logically absurd to relegate a universal phenomenon to the pathological domain.
- Instead of wit, he interpreted my jokes as racist and ethnocentric misinformation.
Synonyms jingoistic, chauvinistic, excessively patriotic, excessively nationalistic, sectarian, isolationist, flag-waving, xenophobic, racist, racialist
Derivativesadverb I realize that in an age of internationalism, I have set this argument out ethnocentrically. Example sentencesExamples - His conclusion is that English translations such as ‘Gentiles’ ‘pagans,’ or ‘heathens’ are ethnocentrically biased judgments about outsiders by modern Jewish or Christian monotheists.
- When the world is getting more networked, the knee-jerk reaction seems to be an attempt to simplify and ethnocentrically modify an increasingly complex set of messages that come from all directions.
- He has taken this physically, culturally, and linguistically distinct group and created an ethnocentrically negative stereotype of these people with racist overtones, which colors his behavior and attitude towards them.
nounˌɛθnə(ʊ)sɛnˈtrɪsɪti How much more powerful is our ethnocentricity when we are faced with real individuals whose lifestyles, beliefs about disability, and child-rearing practices challenge our own deepest beliefs? Example sentencesExamples - Few people would deny that individuals vary in their level of awareness of their own sexism (or racism, ethnocentricity, or even anthropocentricity).
- Cross argues that dismissing music as a useless frill smacks of ethnocentricity.
- My own attempts at avoiding ethnocentricity have been rather shaken up over the last fortnight, and I'd like to talk about it.
- This is not a matter of shunning that which you hold sacred - it is simply about opening the doors of ethnocentricity to allow in others whose views might differ from your own.
Rhymesandrocentric, centric, concentric, eccentric, egocentric, Eurocentric, geocentric, phallocentric, theocentric Definition of ethnocentric in US English: ethnocentricadjectiveˌeTHnōˈsentrikˌɛθnoʊˈsɛntrɪk Evaluating other peoples and cultures according to the standards of one's own culture. 种族（或民族）中心主义的；种族（或民族、文化）优越感的 Example sentencesExamples - Nor should this be seen purely as a matter of cultural imperialism or ethnocentric prejudice.
- Although individuation is viewed as the optimal path to identity development in some cultures, this is ethnocentric and biased when viewed in the context of other cultures across the world.
- We assert that it is culturally ethnocentric and logically absurd to relegate a universal phenomenon to the pathological domain.
- Such ethnocentric representation of the indigenous and the aboriginal suggests the poet's lack of sympathy with her environment - that is, her estrangement.
- We are proudly independent, ethnocentric, xenophobic, and nativistic, he argued, while showing off his flashy vocabulary.
- Teaching American history - our common story - as opposed to group-identity history, is rejected as ethnocentric and jingoistic.
- I wonder when you will see fit to take our government's ethnocentric and intolerant activities to task?
- This manifests, in my opinion, a clear-cut case of cultural and ethnocentric chauvinism on the part of the European scholars.
- Such examination and subsequent awareness is not always easy because people have a tendency to be blind to their bias or ethnocentric perspectives.
- They are totally unconscious of the latent racism which such a campaign evokes in countries where ethnocentric prejudice is so deep-rooted.
- Nevertheless, many highly ethnocentric societies are not racist.
- By its very definition, the perception inherent in Orientalism is racist, imperialist and ethnocentric.
- Beyond this, the editor made efforts to address and correct common misconceptions and biases found in ethnocentric texts and media coverage about the region.
- However, while I succeeded in producing a space for the validation of local voices, I am less certain that this in any way challenged parochial and ethnocentric perspectives.
- Instead of wit, he interpreted my jokes as racist and ethnocentric misinformation.
- The new communitarian thinking can be one way of accepting ethnic debates without sounding ethnocentric.
- Equating the week with a seven-day rhythm is a result of an ethnocentric bias that is challenged through an examination of the surprisingly wide variability of the week's length in different parts of the world.
- For we are exemplifying the attitude we claim to despise; we would rather die than be ethnocentric, but ethnocentrism is precisely the conviction that one would rather die than share certain beliefs.
- The first generation of western historians to address the western environment as an agent in shaping the region reflected the ethnocentric preconceptions of their time.
- This does help to counter a traditional overemphasis on western societies and an ethnocentric bias in the treatment of other societies.
Synonyms jingoistic, chauvinistic, excessively patriotic, excessively nationalistic, sectarian, isolationist, flag-waving, xenophobic, racist, racialist
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