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单词 ethnocentrism
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Definition of ethnocentrism in English:

ethnocentrism

noun ˌɛθnə(ʊ)ˈsɛntrɪz(ə)mˌeTHnōˈsentrizəm
mass noun
  • Evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • European ethnocentrism is not, therefore, the sole culprit.
    • The best way to combat ethnocentrism is to encourage empathy at all levels of the firm.
    • Unable to adjust to these disappointments, many missionaries returned home with their ethnocentrism intact.
    • The comments reveal an ethnocentrism in judging lower-class behavior using middle-class standards.
    • Ethnocentrism is in reality a much more widespread phenomenon than racism.
    • Her family background perhaps also helps to explain her interest in displaced and marginal people, her horror of nationalism and ethnocentrism.
    • Rejecting the ethnocentrism characteristic of an earlier generation of anthropologists, Levi-Strauss refused to think of tribal cultures as primitive.
    • Australia was settled by Europeans as Western ethnocentrism meshed with racial ideas.
    • Goodbye ethnocentrism, greetings to the common world we diversely live in and attempt to make sense of.
    • I cannot believe the amount of ethnocentrism that I have encountered in a nation renowned for its cultural diversity.

Derivatives

  • ethnocentrist

  • noun & adjective
    • We are largely monolinguists and ethnocentrists and damn good tourists, but hapless travelers.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • With its majestic silence and impressive height, it leaves even the ethnocentrist of the worst breed in complete awe.
      • The movement is simply one of the wedges used by racists, ethnocentrists, religious bigots, and homophobes to force the country to engage in an evil discourse.
      • I'm sorry, but that seems arrogant and ethnocentrist to me.
      • Women wanted to deal with a much wider array of conditions; they wanted to pursue transcendence free from ethnocentrist as well as sexist or classist assumptions.

Definition of ethnocentrism in US English:

ethnocentrism

nounˌeTHnōˈsentrizəm
  • Evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The comments reveal an ethnocentrism in judging lower-class behavior using middle-class standards.
    • Goodbye ethnocentrism, greetings to the common world we diversely live in and attempt to make sense of.
    • I cannot believe the amount of ethnocentrism that I have encountered in a nation renowned for its cultural diversity.
    • European ethnocentrism is not, therefore, the sole culprit.
    • Ethnocentrism is in reality a much more widespread phenomenon than racism.
    • The best way to combat ethnocentrism is to encourage empathy at all levels of the firm.
    • Unable to adjust to these disappointments, many missionaries returned home with their ethnocentrism intact.
    • Her family background perhaps also helps to explain her interest in displaced and marginal people, her horror of nationalism and ethnocentrism.
    • Rejecting the ethnocentrism characteristic of an earlier generation of anthropologists, Levi-Strauss refused to think of tribal cultures as primitive.
    • Australia was settled by Europeans as Western ethnocentrism meshed with racial ideas.
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