culturismn.
/ˈkʌltʃ(ə)rɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈkəltʃəˌrɪz(ə)m/ 1. Systematic devotion to culture. rare.
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1875 D. S. Gregory Christian Ethics 321 And so to dwarf men and pervert their development by introducing a deadening culturism into the place of a helpful morality and Christianity.
1917 E. W. Rice Sunday-school Movement xii. 392 They might need to know it, but they wanted not evangelism, but ‘culturism’.
2. Belief in the relative superiority or inferiority of certain cultures; discrimination or prejudice based on assumptions about culture.
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1942 Far Eastern Q. 1 130 The Chinese developed what may be called, by analogy to nationalism, a spirit of ‘culturism’. Those who did not follow the Chinese way were ipso facto inferior.
1962 M. J. Herskovits Human Factor in Changing Africa 130 Culturism was behind the various projects advanced in East and Central Africa for a differential franchise.
1995 Times (Nexis) 5 Aug. Racism and an even more insidious culturism have distorted both Western and Japanese interpretations of history.
2004 A. Holliday et al. Intercultural Communication 3 Culturism..reduces and otherizes the individual and underlies many of the problems in the world today.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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