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ethnocentric, a.|ɛθnəʊˈsɛntrɪk|
[f. Gr. ἔθνο-ς nation + centric a.]
Regarding one's own race or ethnic group as of supreme importance. So ethnoˈcentrism, ˌethnocenˈtricity.
1900W. J. McGee in Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol. 1897–98 831 In primitive culture the epocentric and ethnocentric views are ever-present and always-dominant factors of both mentation and action. 1907W. G. Sumner Folkways i. 13 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 reference to it. Ibid. 15 The state..became the object of that group vanity and antagonism which had been ethnocentric. 1951E. E. Evans-Pritchard Social Anthrop. vi. 127 This ethnocentric attitude has to be abandoned if we are to appreciate the rich variety of human culture and social life. 1957W. S. Allen Ling. Stud. Lang. 8 Mar. 7 A familiarity with many languages..may do much to reduce the ethnocentrism with which, as native speakers of a language, we are inevitably burdened. 1959Listener 1 Jan. 27/2 Is it really necessary to resuscitate the white man's burden at the very time when so much depends upon our getting rid of this form of ethnocentricity? 1964I. L. Horowitz New Sociology 34 The present ethnocentricity reflects a fascination with machines at the expense of minds. 1964M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia xii. 70 The age at which a child normally begins to read with facility is also the age at which..he turns from an autistic, egocentric individual, to a societal, ethnocentric being. |