Meaning of ethnocentric in English

ethnocentric

adjective

/ˌeθ.nəʊˈsen.trɪk/ us

/ˌeθ.noʊˈsen.trɪk/

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believing that the people, customs, and traditions of your own race or nationality are better than those of other races

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Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly

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ethnocentrism

(Definition of ethnocentric from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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ethnocentric

adjective

us/ˌeθ·noʊˈsen·trɪk/

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social studies

preferring a particular race or culture to all others

(Definition of ethnocentric from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of ethnocentric

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Modernism is characterised by deeply held ethnocentric assumptions.

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It is apparently assumed that modern archaeology has freed itself from such national and ethnocentric constraints.

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Or so it becomes, at least, in the eyes of those who are not fully in the grip of ethnocentric loyalties.

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This is partly due to an often one-sided, a-historical, unreflective and ethnocentric focus on economic growth parameters.

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This normative construction is not only disabling, but highly gendered and ethnocentric.

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Political leaders normally form political parties and mobilise supporters by appealing to ethnocentric feelings, thereby reducing parties to ethnicbased outfits.

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The same technology that helps to make the world less parochial also helps it to become more ethnocentric.

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As a number of otherwise sympathetic critics have argued, they are vulnerable to the charge of being ethnocentric.

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Words for technical objects and processes are much more definite, and less open to ethnocentric interpretation, than words for social units and processes.

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Laudably, this book attempts to avoid the ethnocentric focus of traditional social gerontology.

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This traditional view, however, is too ethnocentric, and the latest part of the story has to be rewritten on the basis of recent facts.

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But a theory of social rationality seems to have built into it an elusive and arguably inappropriate ethnocentric concept of rationality.

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The list of these factors is exceedingly ethnocentric and lacks grounded contextual knowledge.

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Frequently the description was in ethnocentric terms - such as 'critical regionalism' - which presupposed their marginality and distance from a presumed 'mainstream'.

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The neoliberal policies enacted by the regime not only had severe social costs, but were also profoundly ethnocentric.

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