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- noun
ethnocentrism
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Examples
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On pure emotion and ethnocentricism, one would vote for McCain.
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"Anti-Chinese" smacks of an accusation of ethnocentricism: Ma engages China, but Chen is anti-Chinese.
Archive 2009-05-01 Michael Turton 2009
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"Anti-Chinese" smacks of an accusation of ethnocentricism: Ma engages China, but Chen is anti-Chinese.
But There Is No Such Thing as the Western Media.... Michael Turton 2009
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Civil people respect their boundaries shared with others in the vicinity of their artisitic expressions. that statement is just plain ethnocentricism.
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As I see it, my job, as a teacher of "the West," is not so much to punch holes in all that pan-Chinese ethnocentricism as to "counter" it with an appreciation of Western cultures.
Archive 2006-03-01 Michael Turton 2006
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As to the racial overtones of the story, while the violent ethnocentricism of the tale is understandable when we recognize its origin in the nineteenth - century Anglo-Saxon settler viewpoint, with the blacks standing in for Indians, it makes for unsettling reading for the modern audience.
The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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As to the racial overtones of the story, while the violent ethnocentricism of the tale is understandable when we recognize its origin in the nineteenth - century Anglo-Saxon settler viewpoint, with the blacks standing in for Indians, it makes for unsettling reading for the modern audience.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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We are beyond the days of slavery and ethnocentricism, and bigotry, and hatred and prejudice.
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: What Do 'The Eyes of Tammy Faye' See? - August 27, 2000 2000
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There is a deep lesson for the world in the black races 'capacity to forgive, one which, I often think, has much to do with ethical precepts which spring from their world view and authentic religions, none of which is ever totally eradicated by the accretions of foreign faiths and their implicit ethnocentricism.
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You are a callous person Victoria and your ethnocentricism is truely disgusting.
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