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ethnocentrism

Viewing other peoples and cultures from the standard of one's own cultural assumptions, customs, and values. In anthropology, ethnocentrism is avoided in preference for a position of relativism.



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Unlike American ethnocentrists, the bearers of this bias believed that the Soviet Union could eventually throw off Stalinism and become a truly democratic polity with a socialist economy.
 
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