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	In this final chapter of MacDonald's trilogy on Jewish evolutionary strategies, he outlines how Jews and Gentiles are ...
		Although ethnocentric beliefs and behavior are viewed as morally and intellectually legitimate only among ethnic minorities in the United States, the theory and the data presented in SAID indicate that the development of greater ethnocentrism among Euro-pean-derived peoples is a likely result of present trends.
		Traditional American freedoms such as the First Amendment freedom of speech (deriving from the Enlightenment liberal strand of American identity) have clearly facilitated specifically Jewish interests in the construction of culture, interests that conflict with the possibility of constructing a cohesive society built around high-investment parenting.
		Ethnocentrism would be of no importance in combating the physical environment, and such an environment would not support large groups.
	home.comcast.net /~neoeugenics/whither.htm (11283 words)

	American exceptionalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		American exceptionalism is the idea that the United States and the American people hold a special place in the world, by offering opportunity and hope for humanity, derived from a unique balance of public and private interests governed by constitutional ideals that are focused on personal and economic freedom.
		Because American existence as an influential and powerful society is due to its vast resources, the story of how common American ethos is itself due to its vast resources; the current state of development being the culmination of an opportunity for 15th to 20th-century Europeans upon the discovery of the New World.
		Americans have tended to believe that a strong work ethic and personal fortitude is the key to success, rather than being born to the right family or making the right friends.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Exceptionalism (3156 words)

	Encyclopedia: American culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Another primary influence on American culture is the constant stream of new immigrants, many of whom had fled persecution or oppression in their home countries, and were seeking freedom (including religious freedom) and economic opportunity, leading them to reject totalitarian practices.
		In the American educational system children are generally required to attend school from the age of five or six until age 16, with the majority continuing until they are at least 17 or 18, or have graduated from high school.
		The American religious tradition is primarily Christian, but the Constitutional guarantee of separation of church and state, freedom of religion and, again, the diversity of the population means that no one religion holds sway over the entirety of the population.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/American-culture (4516 words)

	Encyclopedia: American ethnocentrism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The factual accuracy of this article is United States and the American people hold a special place in the world, by offering opportunity and hope for humanity, derived from its unique balance of public and private interests governed by constitutional ideals that are focused on personal and economic freedom.
		In one way or another, "exceptionalism" (and ideas like it) attempt to assert either a "divine destiny" of American history (see US nationalism) or are otherwise (for sake of discussion) simply focusing on subjective and ideological factors, while avoiding the material ones; particularly if they seem too obtrusive or general.
		Proponents of American exceptionalism counter that these examples indeed show the failure of America to live up to its putative ideals, but that on the strength of those ideals, later generations of Americans have admitted these errors and have made attempts to redress them, through programs such as affirmative action.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/American-ethnocentrism (3106 words)

	American ethnocentrism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		American exceptionalism is a term given to the belief that the United States of America and the American people hold a special place in the world, by offering opportunity and hope for humanity, derivedfrom its unique balance of public and private interests governed by constitutional ideals that are focused on personal andeconomic freedom.
		The propagandist notion of "American exceptionalism" would be used in the mass-media to contrast the benevolence of American idealism versus those of communism, which were cast asnationalist personifications of liberty and tyranny, respectively.
		Opponents of the notion of American exceptionalism argue that, while all societies differ in their history and socialstructures, the notion that the United States is uniquely virtuous overstates the importance of differences between American andother present-day First World countries.
	www.therfcc.org /american-ethnocentrism-58299.html (1887 words)

	Americentrism - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Americentrism or American ethnocentrism refers to the collective views of Americans which are ethnocentrist or culturally biased.
		The term Americentrism tends to be used in contexts where an American point-of-view appears to dominate political debate, to the detriment of neutral, a world view, or world opinion.
		American exceptionalism is widely considered to be an academic codification of the benevolent American mythos; attributing the apparent success and prosperity of the United States to deliberate and wise choices, rather than to the vast lands and natural wealth on which early Americans were privileged to settle.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Americentrism (125 words)

	Vietnam Bibliography - Introduction
		History textbooks on the war present American perspectives, often suggesting, as David Hunt points out, that the Vietnamese victory was a result of American mistakes and had nothing, or at least precious little, to do with actions by Vietnamese.
		American soldiers could not always distinguish civilians from enemy soldiers, and sometimes, as in the massacre at Mu~ Lai, they did not try.
		In fact, Euro-American narratives do include civilians as victims: in many the climactic event is an atrocity committed by an American against a civilian--the rape of a girl, the torturing of an old man, or the shooting of unarmed villagers to revenge the deaths of comrades.
	www.yale.edu /seas/bibliography/chapters/intro.html (3985 words)

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		If both rich and poor in all religions sometimes vote on the basis of their religion and sometimes vote on the basis of their wealth, it is an illustration of a.
		American Hispanics constitute roughly __________ of the U.S. population.
		The percentage of African Americans who lived in the South by the end of the twentieth century was a.
	hcl.chass.ncsu.edu /garson/ps201/review_ch4.txt (1824 words)

	Justifying American Ethnocentrism [ Tempus Fugit \| TxFx.net ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Multiculturalism, the Yin to ethnocentrism’s Yang, is the belief that all cultures are equally viable, equally valid, and equally worthy of consideration.
		Americans may tend to overextend their ethnocentrism to matters of little significance, but these minor offenses do not in any way mean that our ethnocentrism with regards to freedom, democracy, and free enterprise is misguided.
		Americans have every reason in the world to be proud of their society and the freedoms they enjoy.
	www.txfx.net /entries/2004/04/19/justifying_american_ethnocentrism.php (2205 words)

	4Reference \|\| Americentrism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		I wondered the same thing when I saw the page on Jewish ethnocentrism; I'd been assuming that ethnocentrism was a fairly straightforward subject, regardless of the ethnicity on which it centers.
		If that is indeed the case, I probably should think about preparing an article on Brecqhou ethnocentrism, regarding which there is a substantial amount of material.
		If I were so bold I would try to meld all the splintered ethnocentrism articles into one big whopping article.
	www.4reference.net /encyclopedias/wikipedia/Americentrism.html (322 words)

	ETHNOCENTRISM term papers, research papers on ETHNOCENTRISM and essays at AcaDemon
		Ethnocentrism reflects the belief that one's culture is superior to all other cultures and that their culture is the only culture to live by.
		Ethnocentrism, in contrast, is understood as a particularist view in which differences rather than similarities are valued.
		The American doctors, on the other hand, want the Hmong to use American medicines and treatments, and the Hmong have no idea what these treatments are, or how they will benefit their daughter.
	www.academon.com /lib/essay/ethnocentrism.html (2773 words)

	American Indian Studies at Palomar College
		American Indian cultures in North America are studied from early cultures to contemporary society.
		American Indian art forms are examined in terms of cultural context, history of styles, and artists.
		The principles of American Indian philosophy and religious rites practiced prior to extensive European contacts with North American tribes, and the subsequent impact of European cultures on American Indian philosophy and religion.
	www.palomar.edu /americanindianstudies/course.htm (683 words)

	Ethnocentrism
		American ethnocentrism, because our history is just as bloody as Russia's or Britain's" (www.bigeye.com).
		Ethnocentric approaches assume that all cultures operate within the same standards of reference (right and wrong, good and bad, etc.)" (www.csbs.utsa.edu).
		Another example illustrates how basic ethnocentrism is. If we go to a store and ask for a purple coat and the sales clerk gives us a blue one, we would think the person was color blind or just plain stupid.
	www.colostate.edu /Depts/Speech/rccs/theory36.htm (1702 words)

	The Collegian: Literary Diversity: Asian American Women Writers
		Many young Americans are not aware of the freedom they have to choose their own life mates on the grounds of love.
		Americans seem to be more concerned with the opinions of others and social status than they are with frugality and waste.
		According to Kingston’s novel, Americans are viewed as organized and inventive; their word (or in most cases a handshake) is good; they are fat; they play hard; and life changes for them every day.
	www.mobap.edu /student/collegian/mt/000347.asp (3017 words)

	Justifying American Ethnocentrism [ Tempus Fugit \| TxFx.net ]
		Multiculturalism, the Yin to ethnocentrism’s Yang, is the belief that all cultures are equally viable, equally valid, and equally worthy of consideration.
		Americans may tend to overextend their ethnocentrism to matters of little significance, but these minor offenses do not in any way mean that our ethnocentrism with regards to freedom, democracy, and free enterprise is misguided.
		Americans have every reason in the world to be proud of their society and the freedoms they enjoy.
	txfx.net /2004/04/19/justifying-american-ethnocentrism (1003 words)

	Graduate Research in Nursing, November 2000. Grubbs, Concept Analysis: Ethnocentrism.
		Ethnocentrism is defined in the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Sociology as “the tendency to view the norms and values of one’s own culture as absolute and to use them as a standard against which to judge and measure all other cultures”.
		The consequences for the concept of ethnocentrism specific to nursing are the misdiagnosis, mistreatment, and undertreatment of culturally diverse individuals outside the nurse’s cultural group.
		According to the American Academy of Nursing’s Expert Panel on Culturally Competent Care (1992), culturally competent care is defined as care that is sensitive to issues related to culture, race, gender, and sexual orientation.
	www.graduateresearch.com /Grubbs.htm (1998 words)

	Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society, 1962
		The American voter is buffeted from all directions by pseudo-problems, by the structurally-initiated sense that nothing political is subject to human mastery.
		American military strategists are slowly acceeding to the NATO demand for an independent deterrent, based on the fear that America might not defend Europe from military attack.
		Americans can contribute to the growth of democracy in such societies not by moralizing, nor by indiscriminate prejudgment, but by retaining a critical identification with these nations, and by helping them to avoid external threats to their independence.
	coursesa.matrix.msu.edu /~hst306/documents/huron.html (18697 words)

	Ethnocentrism and Third World Development
		Whether or not the American farm and farmer was portrayed accurately, whether the family farm was really the rock of stability it was imagined to be, or even whether the family farm has any future in America-all serious concerns-we must question the applicability of this model to Latin America and other Third World areas.
		Attempting naively and ethnocentrically to recast Latin America in the United States mold, and without any consideration for the possible viability of indigenous institutions, the program was bound to be a failure, as proved to be the case.
		Ironically, although Americans have served as the architects of the program, the United States itself has no national population policy-and could not conceivably pass such a program through Congress-yet we insist that Latin American countries adopt one as a condition of foreign aid largess or, it is strongly suspected, World Bank subsidies.
	www.mty.itesm.mx /dhcs/deptos/ri/ri95-801/lecturas/lec177.html (6954 words)

	Race and the Dual State
		We propose an alternative, but race-centered, understanding of American political development from 1787 to 1861 that focuses on the plural nature of American society and the duality of the Anglo-American state during this period.
		Even a superficial analysis of American social reality from the arrival of English colonists in the early 1600s until at least the late 1960s reveals that the society created by Anglo-American conquest was a plural society in respect to all the characteristics listed by van den Berghe.
		In its dealings with Native Americans and African Americans, the Anglo-American state was clearly a predatory state—an instrument for maximizing the wealth of Anglo-Americans at the expense of the continent's non-white populations.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~novkov/raceapd/youngmeiserpaper.htm (10451 words)

	american ethnocentrism hispanic - Hispanic American HispanicAmerican.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In many cases, Americans' ethnocentrism blinds them to the fact that life in a typical Hispanic household may be different than in...
		Laura Higgins Florand on American ethnocentrism and its effect in preventing the joys of immersion travel...
		These African American, Caucasian, Hispanic, and Asian families are fortunately and unfortunately not unique in 21st...
	www.hispanicamerican.info /american-ethnocentrism-hispanic (278 words)

	Welcome to Ethics Daily.com!
		Furthermore, many who believe that speaking English is the key to "being an American" echo nationalistic and highly sectarian sentiments like those of Theresa Harmon, a founder of Tennesseans for Responsible Immigration Policies.
		Unfortunately, Americans' propensities to define cultural purity began with the founding fathers and continued through the 19th and 20th centuries in a white, Protestant ethos.
		Americans are under the impression that English is both a founding principle of the
	www.ethicsdaily.com /article_detail.cfm?AID=7690 (1018 words)

	Islam Obscured by Martin Kramer (from Ivory Towers on Sand)
		And so American congressmen were instructed by the president-elect of MESA that a country with no political parties, presided over by a coup-plotting general, ridden by civil war, with a per capita gross domestic product of $200, still might qualify somehow as a democracy.
		Americans, in their basic fairness and respect for due process, saw the bombing trial as a straightforward criminal case.
		American academics, by their preoccupation with would-be Luthers, succumbed to the occupational hazard of overestimating the role of intellectuals.
	www.geocities.com /martinkramerorg/IslamObscured.htm (7529 words)

	The Sweep of History
		American Lend-Lease amounted to no more than 5 percent of the Russian war effort.
		Only Anglo-American ethnocentrism leads our two nations to believe that we were the number one destroyers of Hitler.
		That hardly means American won the war for Russia; but Russia probably could not have won the war against Germany all alone.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/politics_conservative/1163 (2157 words)

	Academic Research Papers \| Anthropology
		The negative impact of the missions and Christianity on the native American culture is documented, particularly in terms of conflicting value systems.
		Anthropological data on the songs and poetry of American Indians is described in layman's terms, and the religious traditions of the Indians are related to the narration of poetry.
		Problems of relating American to Asian language groups are examined, and environmental and cultural influences on such languages as the Hopi and Navaho dialects are considered.
	www.academicresearchpapers.com /catpages/catl01-3.html (3374 words)

	Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Hegel, Slavery & 19th Century African American Music (4)
		In fact, the overwhelming majority of antebellum and late nineteenth century African American musical forms and traditions exhibit many of the characteristics that Genovese cites for African American Christianity and the processes of their transformation can also be said to possess the same ‘folk dynamic’ as that of religion.
		However true this may be in terms of American history and World Spirit, this study will confine itself to an examination of the process in regard to nineteenth century African American music as a form of labour in the Hegelian sense.
		Zamir notes that many American Hegelians of this time falsely attributed the notion of the ‘cowardly contract’ to Hegel, providing them and others with "philosophical alibis for the proslavery arguments." Hegel’s dialectic could then become a justification for the institution through a misrepresentation of the slave as compliant to slavery and acquiescent to their position.
	www.autodidactproject.org /other/ghdisch1.html (13341 words)

	Cutting Edge of Imperialism
		Thus, western ideas based on an Anglo-American ethnocentrism is taught as a universal axiom to be, if not followed directly, at least adapted to the local area.
		Though British and Americans may cry "linguistic chauvinism" at any attempt to reverse present trends, the fact of the matter is that they are merely following the Golden Rule; that is, he who has the gold makes the rule.
		Among the worst in terms of second or foreign-language learning, British and American tourists have themselves become more and more linguistically chauvinist, as they expect and demand goods and services in their own language - no matter what country they happen to be in.
	www.leftcurve.org /LC22WebPages/cutedge.html (1968 words)

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