ethnocentrism

ethnocentric | American Dictionary

ethnocentric
adjective
us/ˌeθ·noʊˈsen·trɪk/
social studies
preferring a particular race or culture to all others

Examples of ethnocentric

ethnocentric
Modernism is characterised by deeply held ethnocentric assumptions.
It is apparently assumed that modern archaeology has freed itself from such national and ethnocentric constraints.
Or so it becomes, at least, in the eyes of those who are not fully in the grip of ethnocentric loyalties.
This is partly due to an often one-sided, a-historical, unreflective and ethnocentric focus on economic growth parameters.
This normative construction is not only disabling, but highly gendered and ethnocentric.
Political leaders normally form political parties and mobilise supporters by appealing to ethnocentric feelings, thereby reducing parties to ethnicbased outfits.
The same technology that helps to make the world less parochial also helps it to become more ethnocentric.
As a number of otherwise sympathetic critics have argued, they are vulnerable to the charge of being ethnocentric.
Words for technical objects and processes are much more definite, and less open to ethnocentric interpretation, than words for social units and processes.
Laudably, this book attempts to avoid the ethnocentric focus of traditional social gerontology.
This traditional view, however, is too ethnocentric, and the latest part of the story has to be rewritten on the basis of recent facts.
But a theory of social rationality seems to have built into it an elusive and arguably inappropriate ethnocentric concept of rationality.
The list of these factors is exceedingly ethnocentric and lacks grounded contextual knowledge.
Frequently the description was in ethnocentric terms - such as 'critical regionalism' - which presupposed their marginality and distance from a presumed 'mainstream'.
The neoliberal policies enacted by the regime not only had severe social costs, but were also profoundly ethnocentric.
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