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ethnocentrismViewing 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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A Social Psychological approach argues that cultural and economic advantages of a particular ethnic group lead it to develop kinship myths based on collective honor, and therefore to stereotype outsider groups ethnocentrically (Horowitz). For in this battle the interests of the West lie overwhelmingly in the triumph of the local, the ethnocentrically particular and the traditional--against the interests promoted by global communications technology and the spread of internationalist ideas. The museum furthermore is relentlessly ethnocentrically Jewish, run by Jews for Jews. |
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