Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Characterized by the idea that the tribal unit to which the self belongs is the center of the universe.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to ethnocentrism.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own; exhibiting ethnocentrism (in both senses).
WordNet 3.0
- adj. centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own
Etymologies
- ethno- + -centric (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Native Americans consider this term ethnocentric and insulting.”
“In particular, among white voters being ethnocentric is associated — independent of self-described ideology and other factors — with decreased support for means-tested welfare:”
Matthew Yglesias » Ethnocentrism and Small Government Hypocrisy
“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”
Think Progress » In Any Language, Sen. Coburn’s Amendment Should Make You Sick
“If we didn't want blacks to engage in ethnocentric politics, well, our ancestors shouldn't have dragged them here in chains.”
“The labels "ethnocentric" and "elitist," used by Professor Barraclough to describe Elias's orientation, are as misleading as they are wrong.”
“In short, ethnocentric in some ways, yes, but Champlain’s attitudes were grounded in ideas of universal justice, faith, and peace.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Spread ArtCulture: Patricia Piccinini's World of Creatures Great & Small
“Um ... how can you argue this isn't racist, or at the very least painfully and awkwardly ethnocentric???”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ethnocentric’.
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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reginaterra's Words
purl, blow, squish, andean, generality, adaptation, lush, pack, filter, acquiesce, abstraction, sweet and 508 more...
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ethno-
of or relating to a people or nation
ethnocentric, ethnology, ethnography, ethnologue, ethnic, ethnarch
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centri-, centro-, -centric
center
centripetal, centrifugal, centrobaric, egocentric, polycentric, ethnocentric, eurocentric
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ginnylev's Words
neuroplasticity, repudiate, scintilla, ruminate, tautology, ombudsman, exigent, filibuster, grace, ambidextrous, amends, disclosure and 623 more...
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Groupthink
Intra-Group dynamics, psychology of/within, and heard mentality.
acculturation, isopraxism, girouettism, steinzor effect, crowdsourcing, ethnocentric, syntality, conclamation, esprit de corps, ethnomania, entryism, herd crime and 78 more...
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race discourse
diversity, colonial, white man's burden, neocolonialism, westrocentrism, whiteness, ethnocentric
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