Definition of ethnocentrism in English:
ethnocentrism
noun ˌɛθnə(ʊ)ˈsɛntrɪz(ə)mˌeTHnōˈsentrizəm
mass nounEvaluation 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
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.