The practice of using one's own culture as a reference point for evaluating the values, beliefs, and habits of members of another culture.
Beliefs in the superiority of one's own race and culture.
All people are culturally self-centered to a certain degree. Each society and subgroups within societies believe that their beliefs and practices are morally correct and "natural". Different beliefs and practices are seen as "unnatural". For example in the not too distant past, standard American pediatric practice advocated placing infants on their stomachs when sleeping. The European practice of placing infants on their sides or backs was considered "wrong", "out-moded", "traditional", "unnatural" and/or backward. With new research on Infant Sudden Death Syndrome, parents are being educated to position infants on their sides or back with periodic shifting to ensure a clear breathing passage. Ethnocentrism can become harmful when one group of people tries to impose their beliefs and practices on others. Drawing upon the fields of sociology and psychology, see ETHNOCENTRISM- A KEY DETERMINANT IN INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE STRATEGY FORMULATION? (.pdf file) (Adobe Acrobat), by Sinkovics and Holzmuller for a discussion on the impact of ethnocentrism on international business relations.
a tendency to see one's own group as at the centre of things, so that one evaluates other groups only in relation to one's own; having assumptions or preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own race or group
Seeing the world through self-colored glasses, so that your culture always looks best and becomes the pattern everyone else should fit into. By no means is ethnocentrism restricted to the majority culture in a country, but it is a nearly universal tendency among humans.
The phenomenon of culture-centredness, by which one uses one’s own culture as a benchmark against which to judge all other patterns of behaviour.
The assumption that one's own culture and way of life are superior to all others.
An attitude that one's own culture, society, or group is inherently superior to all others. Ethnocentrism means an inability to appreciate others whose culture may include a different racial group, ethnic group, religion, morality, language, political system, economic system, etc. It also means an inability to see a common humanity and human condition facing all women and men in all cultures and societies beneath the surface variations in social and cultural traditions.
refers to the practice of judging a different society by the standards and values of one's own. This is seen, particularly by ethnographers, as inhibiting understanding of other ways of life.
A practice of unconsciously or consciously privileging a certain ethnic group over others. This involves judging other groups by the values of one's own group.
The belief in the superiority of one's own culture compared with that of others.
the learned belief held by people who feel that their cultural group is superior to other cultural groups
belief that one's own group (culture, race, country) is better than others are back
(ETH·no·CEN·trism). The practice of judging another society by the beliefs, norms, and values of one’s own society leading to the attitude that one’s own society is superior to that of another.
The feeling that one's group has a mode of living, values, and patterns of adaption that is superior to all others. It is coupled with a generalized contempt for members of other groups. "...the view of things in which one's own group is the center of everything, and that all other groups are scaled and rated with reference to it.... Each group thinks that its own folkways are the correct ones, and if it observes that other groups have other folkways, these excite its scorn." Ethnocentrism may manifest itself in behavior such as warfare or in attitudes of superiority or sometimes hostility. Violence, discrimination, proselytizing, and verbal aggressiveness are other means whereby ethnocentrism may express itself.
The tendency of people to put their own group (ethnos) at the center and use the standards of that group to judge others.
the view that one's own cultural assumptions are superior and should be used to judge others.
An inclination to view events from the perspective of one's own culture, with a coinciding inclination to misunderstand or diminish other groups and regard them as inferior.
Tendency of members of one cultural group to view the members of other cultural groups in terms of the standards of behavior, attitudes, and values of their own group. The belief that one's cultural, ethnic, professional, or social group is superior to that of others.
the tendency to judge the customs of other societies by the standards of one's own ethnographic present.
A practice of consciously or unconsciously privileging one’s own ethnic group over others that involves judging other groups by the values of one's own group.
Belief in the superiority of one's own culture; judging another culture by the norms and values of one's own culture.
The use of values, ideals, and mores from one's own culture to judge the behavior of someone from another culture.
The belief that one's own culture is what it means to be human and that other cultures or ways of life are somehow not normal and natural.
The belief that one's culture is superior to all others.
A belief in the superiority of one's own race, ethnicity or culture.
The evaluation of another culture employing the standards of one's own culture. Usually this entails seeing one's own world view as being superior to that of others. However, it should be noted that the first encounters with another culture must be made from the observer's perspective; as one learns from the members of the other culture, one can become less ethnocentric.
The feeling that a group’s mode of living, values, and patterns of adaptation are superior to those of other groups. It may manifest itself in attitudes of superiority or hostility toward members of other groups and is sometimes expressed in discrimination, proselytizing, or violence.
Tendency to view others using one’s own group and customs as the standard for judgement, and the tendency to see one’s group and customs as the best.
The tendency to evaluate other groups by the standards and values of one's own ethnic group.
An attitude that one's own culture is superior to that of others.
Ethnocentrism or ethnocentricity is the tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own culture. This term was coined by William Graham Sumner, a social evolutionist and professor of Political and Social Science at Yale University. He defined it as the viewpoint that “one’s own group is the center of everything,†against which all other groups are judged.