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  Ethnocentrism : Americentrism
This behaviour can range from universal acceptance or feelings of inferiority compared with other cultures, to racism, which many consider an aspect of xenophobia.
Americentrism is a the term for a cultural and personal disposition in favor of United States, be it its culture, its politics, or its ideolology.
However the term "Americentrism" points to issues where a predominance of American point of view exists, to the detriment of a neutral or world view.
www.fastload.org /am/Americentrism.html   (388 words)

  
  Ethnocentrism
Americentrism is a the term for a cultural and personal disposition in favor of United States, be it its culture, its politics, or its ideolology.
However the term "Americentrism" points to issues where a predominance of American point of view exists, to the detriment of a neutral or world view.
Anglocentrism is a form of ethnocentrism specific to people who self-identify as English, irrespective of such individuals genetic makeup, religious beliefs, or sexual orientation.
www.wordlookup.net /et/ethnocentrism.html   (615 words)

  
 Americentrism - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
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.music.us /education/A/Americentrism.htm   (333 words)

  
 Americanism
Americanism also called "Americentrism" is the idea of an American ethnicity and the holding of American values as ideal.
Also, an Americanism is a word or phrase used commonly in America that has been more recently introduced into British English (for example), especially through the popular media of television and movies.
Most words and locutions that the British call Americanisms are of that sort.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/am/Americanism.html   (185 words)

  
 nhl-mac
It should be obvious that the rapists' actions are also oppressive, however the film does not attempt to connect their actions to the brutality of their situation but instead connects it to the inherent savageness of El Salvador.
However, it is surprising that he considers one of the weaknesses of the film to be its focus on Romero’s life instead of focusing on U.S. involvement in the region.
I do not agree with Nathan’s argument that the film “dwell[s] on Christianity to the exclusion of any other influence.” The central dilemma that Romero seems to face is the separation he sees between the church and politics.
www.lehigh.edu /~ineng/nhl/nhl-mac.html   (1195 words)

  
 Americentrism Details, Meaning Americentrism Article and Explanation Guide
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 priviledged to settle.
www.e-paranoids.com /a/am/americentrism.html   (145 words)

  
 Soul In Code: AMERICENTRISM: Constructed fear and terror as a method of control   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Domestically, terror alerts are the ultimate propaganda method; just reduce things to simple colors and words like a traffic signal, only model this system around the idea of fear without clear explanation...just the idea of rising fear and terror in...
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Domestically, terror alerts are the ultimate propaganda method; just reduce things to simple colors and words like a traffic signal, only model this system around the idea of fear without clear explanation...just the idea of rising fear and terror in and around your sacred homeland.
www.soulincode.com /archives/000046.html   (889 words)

  
 Classical Net Review - Hampson - To the Soul
Emily Dickinson introduced the sound of American common sense into lyric poetry, a sound that echoed in such diverse writers as Pound, Stein, Cummings, and Williams.
Mark Twain did the same for prose and shifted the American culture firmly from Eurocentrism to Americentrism.
If Washington Irving went to Europe to find the center of the cultural universe in his travel essays and tales, Mark Twain took the center of the universe with him wherever he went.
www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/e/emi55028b.html   (1591 words)

  
 The American dream: with his patriotic-themed team and American drivers, Stefan Johansson is doing his part to win CART ...
WHEN THE 2003 CART season kicked off, among the new teams in the garage was a curious bunch with an Americentric name and a dedication to providing rides for U.S. drivers.
Once Americentrism was identified as the team's focus, Vasser was natural choice.
Not only is he an experienced American driver, but he's a winner--the only current CART driver to have earned a series championship (1996).
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FCH/is_4_31/ai_100046289   (959 words)

  
 Gwen's Mexican Adventure   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
I'd taken one lick from a cone of spoiled ice cream...
Well, okay, I'd taken two -- one to say "Ew," and then one more to make sure that it was definitely spoiled ice cream and not just my own Americentrism.
So I digested a tiny bit of something bad, and that night I was spasming on the bathroom floor with my limbs going numb.
www.gwenworld.com /mexico/mexico4.html   (226 words)

  
 Home Page
It is "Americentric." Most American students today have never studied any world history; they know very little about Europe, and even less about the rest of the world.
When the Berlin Wall was opened in the fall of 1989, journalists discovered that most American teenagers had no idea what it was, nor why its opening was Such a big deal.
In school districts where most children are fl and Hispanic, there has been a growing tendency to embrace particularism rather than pluralism.
www.berkeleyprep.org /LIBRARY/CONE/diversity-article-8.htm   (7227 words)

  
 Paradoxology: July 2006
It has connections to the more well-known concept of "Manifest Destiny".
Often subtle and imperceptible to American Christians themselves, the influences of americentrism can be far-reaching.
And as Assistant Bishop Niringiye has pointed out, this is the case even to the eroding of African self-confidence:
desertpastor.typepad.com /paradoxology/2006/07   (4327 words)

  
 Charles Shiflett Column June 4, 2006
I know I'm guilty of this occasionally and I imagine quite a few of you may have also succumbed to it.
I'm speaking of Americentrism and the complacency that accompanies it.
The scary thing is that as you look across the centuries, many other nations have also suffered from
www.yourgeorgia.net /Georgia/Shiflett060611   (647 words)

  
 The W -- I Love This Team!
Some people were saying the suspensions given to O'Neal, Jackson and even Artest weren't severe enough, even though the lowest of those suspensions was 25 games.
Others called it the worst thing they've ever seen in sports, clearly displaying a sense of Americentrism, seeing as how people die at European soccer matches with shocking frequency.
During the time our three best players were out, we went through a slew of NBDL and training camp players.
the-w.com /thread.php/id=25276   (1091 words)

  
 Nous irons avoir raison
I do remember about how in 2004 when I was still in Singapore, the radio (specifically 93.8 FM material that 92.4 FM borrowed) kept on commenting on (in memorable artificial accents) the various US government shifts, of the Republicans taking control of both House and Senate, and so forth.
By that time I had been tired of the Americentrism already that I had barely cared; now two years later, I am here, on the opposite side of the ocean.
I am not as enthused as I would be, if say, the PAP were to be overthrown (via elections or otherwise), but change is good.
riemannzetafunction.blogspot.com /search/label/time   (3188 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Profile For D. G. D. Davidson: Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
It's a novel you'll either love or hate, so it seems only fit to state my bias up front: formerly Baptist, now a Catholic catechumen who accepts all the teaching of the Church.
That being said, there's a lot to dislike about Macfarlane's Pierced by a Sword, including its "see Dick run" style of prose, its rabid Americentrism, its smearing of non-Catholic religions, and its wholesale borrowing from Fundamentalist eschatology.
The pacing of the novel is brutally slow.
www.amazon.com /gp/cdp/member-reviews/A1VB7POUN22EWS?ie=UTF8   (2711 words)

  
 Souls of Black Folk :: W E B Du Bois . org
Both Afrocentrism and Americentrism reflect attempts to ditch one experience for the other.
In their schizophrenic attempts to ditch one dimension for the other, both Afrocentrism and Americentrism reflect this tension between competing ideals.
The fact is, as Du Bois perceptively argued, neither side would or should give up for the other.
www.webdubois.org /wdb-souls.html   (4110 words)

  
 Wine X Magazine
With the Big Day looming, we're so bogged down in Y2K doom-and-gloom scenarios that we've overlooked one not-so-small detail.
Mired as we are in smug Americentrism, we've been assuming that we won't know the fate of the planet until the hour, minute and second hands of our own clocks click into January 2000.
The world doesn't revolve around the U.S. of A. Far from it, in fact.
www.winexmagazine.com /index.php/wine/vieweat/wyne-2k-lets-partay   (1067 words)

  
 Grammar.police   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
But the complaint itself isn't consistent—the reviewers alleges that the October command "actively repressed" minority art movements, then rehabilitated the same for the book, but then did not write authoritatively about one of those movements, but did include mention of it.
It also betrays an unintentional Americentrism to suggest that a global historical survey include reference to a movement whose context does not obviously (to my mind) extend outside the U.S. borders.
Which is not to say that the lasting value of the Harlem Renaissance isn't potentially universal—nor by any stretch of the imagination is it an argument for excluding fl artists.
grammarpolice.net /archives/000630.php   (2326 words)

  
 Philosophy Forum > Things that changed you
Second, it's a perfectly reasonable response to negative comments about Jakarta - I would have gotten the same idea with the same connotations if the American cities were replaced with British ones, or Australian ones, or Spanish ones, or whatever.
Probably my single most life-changing moment (my other peculiarities seem to have built up gradually) was the one in which I totally lost my Americentrism.
It was in a German language class on the one-year anniversary of 9/11, and we were having a brief and totally off-topic discussion about the event.
forum.darwinawards.com /lofiversion/index.php/t5718-0.html   (7862 words)

  
 flip-flopper at the ADS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
You're condemning the American Dialect Society for "Americentrism"?
Now Sara, please don't get your American dander up.
Americentrism than the choice for the "word of the year" selected by
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 SportingNews.com Blogs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Simply put, that decision is specific to each individual player.
It's all a part of the Americentrism that runs rampant in North American sports.
If Manu Ginobli decides not to play an international event in favor of resting up for the NBA season, Spurs fans applaud his loyalty.
www.sportingnews.com /blog/griggman/32219?rss=1   (983 words)

  
 WNYC - Reading Room: Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
His answer is for other peoples around the world to simply be more like America, whose growing multiethnic character he extols.
Thus Friedman slips into one of the two great contradictions of the Idea of Progress -- Eurocentrism; in this case more of an extreme Americentrism.
And of course for their own good....The world must be democratic.
www.wnyc.org /books/48430   (4948 words)

  
 sotto.org » 2001 » January » 01
Do yourself a favor and link to The International Herald Tribune.
If you want a truly global news perspective without any Americentrism, this site is even better then the BBC.
If you’ve ever wanted to see what Amazon looks like when their site is down, here it is.
sotto.org /2001/01/01   (97 words)

  
 Airbag - 9/What?
Had The Producers been made by someone other than Mel Brooks (a Jew) would it have been in bad taste?
And, as Adrian said above we have to be careful about Americentrism in evaluating any of this stuff.
Most of the rest of the world has had terrorism in their backyards for a long while now.
www.airbagindustries.com /archives/airbag/9what.php   (16344 words)

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