ethnocentric

IPA: ɛθnoʊsˈɛntrɪk

adjective

  • Of or pertaining to ethnocentrism.
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Examples of "ethnocentric" in Sentences

  • Native Americans consider this term ethnocentric and insulting.
  • If we didn't want blacks to engage in ethnocentric politics, well, our ancestors shouldn't have dragged them here in chains.
  • In short, ethnocentric in some ways, yes, but Champlain’s attitudes were grounded in ideas of universal justice, faith, and peace.
  • The labels "ethnocentric" and "elitist," used by Professor Barraclough to describe Elias's orientation, are as misleading as they are wrong.
  • In particular, among white voters being ethnocentric is associated — independent of self-described ideology and other factors — with decreased support for means-tested welfare:
  • Even as the artworks probe the limits of our most primitive ethnocentric biases, they affirm our place on the planet as the dominant species - having the power to discriminate over other life forms.
  • Paul Johnson, in his 1985 “A History of the Jews” gave a long list of prominent Jews from Heine onward who saw themselves as assimilated and nonethnic when they were young men, but then became more ethnocentric and concerned with Jewish identity as they aged.
  • We have good evidence and proof, "he said in his opening statement at the sought to portray the Serbs as the victims, blaming the former Croat leader Franjo Tudjman and the former Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegović of pursuing" ethnocentric "aims, with the desire to create Croatian and Bosnian Muslim states respectively.
  • In the United States, an obscene alliance of corporate supremacists, desperate labor unions, certain ethnocentric Latino activist organizations and a majority of our elected officials in Washington works diligently to keep our borders open, wages suppressed and the American people all but helpless to resist the crushing financial and economic burden created by the millions of illegal aliens who crash our borders each year. advertisement

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