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  • adjective Having a North American focus or bias.

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America + -centric

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Examples

  • This post has two parts, the whiny Americentric part, and the more rational part.

    Adventures in State-Sponsored Autism 2009

  • Like a gerbil exploring its cage, I was driven to give my confines a once over and probe the limits of the Americentric vision I'd been raised on.

    Robert Fuller: On the Road: Why Do We Want To Travel? 2009

  • My (admittedly Americentric, since those are the premieres I've kept best track of) list might look like this:

    Boy, boy, crazy boy Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • In addition, as an extensive international traveler, I strongly believe that the extreme Americentric nature of our culture makes us look foolish and betrays our child-like self-centeredness in this respect.

    Obama: I Traveled To Pakistan In College 2009

  • (It's a little Americentric season-wise, but my SQ got the humor and the sassy single girl thing down pat!)

    MetaTalk 2010

  • Today, I thought I'd at least temporarily jettison my overly Americentric view of the investment universe and look at the recovery in the same areas through the eyes of Germany.

    VIX and More 2010

  • Today, I thought I'd at least temporarily jettison my overly Americentric view of the investment universe and look at the recovery in the same areas through the eyes of Germany.

    VIX and More 2010

  • (It's a little Americentric season-wise, but my SQ got the humor and the sassy single girl thing down pat!)

    MetaTalk 2010

  • It's insensitive to Muslim's religious beliefs, racist and Americentric to point out that this story happened.

    Hot Air » Top Picks 2009

  • Conservapedia is an English-language wiki-based web encyclopedia project written from a young Earth creationist, Americentric, right-wing

    GrodsCorp 2009

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