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	Ethnocentrism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ethnocentrism, coined by William Graham Sumner[?], is the viewpoint that one's ethnic group is the center of everything, against which all other groups are judged.
		Germanocentrism is a form of ethnocentrism specific to people who self-identify as Germans, irrespective of such individuals' genetic makeup, religious beliefs, or sexual orientation.
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	www.wordlookup.net /et/ethnocentrism.html (615 words)

	Ethnocentrism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ethnocentricity is the tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own culture.
		Ethnocentrism often entails the belief that one's own race or ethnic group is the most important and/or that some or all aspects of its culture are superior to those of other groups.
		Ethnocentrism is a natural result of the observation that most people are more comfortable with and prefer the company of people who are like themselves, sharing similar values and behaving in similar ways.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ethnocentrism (1263 words)

	ethnocentrism - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		ETHNOCENTRISM [ethnocentrism] the feeling that one's group has a mode of living, values, and patterns of adaptation that are superior to those of other groups.
		Ethnocentrism may manifest itself in attitudes of superiority or sometimes hostility.
		Ethnocentrism and trait communication apprehension as predictors of interethnic communication apprehension and use of relational maintenance strategies in interethnic communication.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ethnocen.html (296 words)

	The Evolution of Ethnocentrism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ethnocentrism is a nearly universal syndrome of discriminatory attitudes and behaviors.
		Ethnocentric behaviors are typically based on observable characteristics regarded as indicating common descent, and are often territorially based.
		Hammond and Axelrod show that ethnocentric behavior emerges and is sustained in the model under a wide range of conditions, even against free-riding egoists.
	www.brook.edu /es/dynamics/seminars/css_20041209.htm (271 words)

	SocioSite: Chad Joseph McEvoy - Sociobiology
		Ethnocentrism is a cultural meme-complex influencing human behavior, but the ethnocentric memes were forged by essentially the same evolution ary process.
		For this essay, the working definition of ethnocentrism is the conscious or unconscious belief that ones own culture/community/race is truly superior to all others and the tendency to be unaware of the biases involved (Reynolds et al, 1987).
		Nonetheless, it is clear that ethnocentrism is not necessarily, as generations of social scientists have argued, merely social dysfunction or pathology.
	www.sociosite.net /topics/xenophobia.php (3987 words)

	RELIGIOCENTRISM AND ETHNOCENTRISM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"Ethnocentrism" is the social scientist's value-neutral term for ethnic or racial prejudice.
		His further claim that Catholics are less ethnocentric on the Bogardus social distance scale may also be explicable by there being a higher proportion of the key minority groups (e.g.
		Ethnocentrism, religiocentrism and religious conservatism were all shown to be separate and distinct factors of attitudes in their own right.
	jonjayray.tripod.com /doratis.html (4457 words)

	ETHNOCENTRISM - ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ethnocentric official ideology regarding other races is congruent with actual behaviour in the case of South Africa but egalitarian official ideology can also give rise to racial oppression -- as in the case of Soviet Russia and the Jews.
		Certainly ethnocentrism may be a feature of some types of personality pathology, but to find a person ethnocentric does not allow us to conclude that he is sick.
		To summarize, it is felt that we may assert that right-wing and ethnocentric attitudes are not necessarily pathological or sick, and that anti-ethnocentric, anti-fascist attitudes are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for anti-fascist, unprejudiced behaviour.
	jonjayray.tripod.com /ethatt.html (4098 words)

	Carignan et al. RACISM AND ETHNOCENTRISM
		We present here a way of revisiting taken-for-granted ideas toward racism and ethnocentrism and argue that not only the diversity of and differences between students (multicultural perspective) but also the way in which teachers understand, communicate, and interact with them (intercultural perspective) should be recognized.
		Ethnocentrism is the “we and the others” perspective: the way that the “we” looks at the world while looking down at the mimetic others.
		From the critical-radical perspective, racial and ethnocentric biases are not only requestioned but also involved in transformative actions regarding all aspects of educational practices and social changes that are pluriethnic, pluricultural, democratic, equitable, and inclusive.
	www.ualberta.ca /~iiqm/backissues/4_3/HTML/carignan.htm (8009 words)

	TOLERANT AND INTOLERANT ETHNOCENTRISM
		“Ethnocentrism is a commonly used word in circles where ethnicity, inter-ethnic relations, and similar social issues are of concern.
		Ethnocentrism is also evident in international relations, creating conflicts and inhibiting resolution of conflicts.
		Ethnocentrism is a bias that keeps us from such understandings of other people's life experience, but it is possible to recognize this bias and control for it...
	www.selfgrowth.com /articles/Eromosele5.html (4036 words)

	Why is ethnocentrism bad?
		Ethnocentrism is a way of making judgments that leads us to make false assumptions about cultural differences.
		We are ethnocentric when we use our cultural norms to make generalizations about other peoples' cultures and customs.
		The opposite of ethnocentrism is xenocentrism which means preferring ideas and things from other cultures over ideas and things from your own culture.
	home.snu.edu /~hculbert/ethno.htm (302 words)

	Ethnocentrism, eugenics, and the Semitic Mind
		It is a matter of relatedness that is prevalent in the ethnocentrism we all have.
		The level of ethnocentrism or racism several thousands of years ago was a continuum, with the most northerly races in Europe having the least, and the Semites the most - racism.
		That is, the ethnocentrism or xenophobia is carried by the individual, but its intensity is expressed as concentric circles from the closest kin towards the reviled outer ring of Gentiles.
	home.comcast.net /~neoeugenics/ethnic.htm (19072 words)

	CULTURAL IDENTITY AND ETHNOCENTRISM
		Ethnocentrism (Greek ethnos nation + -centrism) is the tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own culture.
		In the latter quarter of the 20th century, various forms of ethnocentrism began to be decried, largely by other groups professing either to be innocent of ethnocentrism themselves or eminently qualified to embrace it.
		Some examples of ethnocentric behaviours are represented by such social phenomena as economic isolationism, counter-cultures, anti-establishmentism, and widespread social patterns of interpersonal abusive behaviours as prejudice, and discrimination.
	www.webspawner.com /users/langandcultural/index.html (1828 words)

	Church involvement, ethnocentrism, and voting for a radical right-wing party: diverging behavioral outcomes of equal ...
		We will look first for the net effect of church involvement on ethnocentrism in a model with the relevant social-background variables, then the attitudinal variables are inserted in the model, and finally, the net effect of church involvement on voting for the Vlaams Blok is analyzed in a model with all the significant factors.
		Somewhat surprisingly, the distribution of the likelihood of voting for the Vlaams Blok is not perfectly parallel to aversion to immigrants.
		Regardless of the variation in ethnocentrism, the three categories of non-Catholics were clearly more prone to vote for a radical right-wing party than were the three categories of Catholics.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0SOR/is_n3_v56/ai_17612375/pg_6 (514 words)

	Ethnocentrism
		Violence, discrimination, proselytizing, and verbal aggressiveness are other means whereby ethnocentrism may be expressed" (www.encyclopedia.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)

	Personal Preferences and Ethnocentrism \| National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"Ethnocentrism is the tendency for people to feel their culture, religion, race or nation is superior, and to judge others by one's own frame of reference."
		Explain that people in any culture are individuals, and that their personal preferences will fall along a continuum, not all at one extreme.
		The subject is ethnocentrism, based on the first contacts between Japanese and foreigners in the sixteenth century and the first contacts between Japanese and Americans in the nineteenth century.
	www.indiana.edu /~japan/LP/LS30.html (289 words)

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		The term ethnocentrism basically refers to the belief that one’s traditions are superior to others’.
		While ethnocentrism occurs in most cultures, it is important to focus on it in the U.S. because it is getting to the point where we don’t even realize that we are being ethnocentric.
		Ethnocentrism may not be as apparent in some societies as in others, but in the United States it is easily noticed even in the different types of cultures inside its own territorial borders.
	www.auburn.edu /~goodmsb/Papers/Ethnocentrism.doc (1144 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”.
		Antecedents for the concept of ethnocentrism include the formation and maintenance of distinct groups, cultural differences, racial differences, lack of intergroup communication, and an environment in which ethnocentric behaviors are supported.
		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.
	www.graduateresearch.com /Grubbs.htm (1998 words)

	Pacific Region Forum: We Are All Ethnocentric - Origins, Features,Results and Treatments For A Necessary Human Condition
		Definition of Ethnocentrism: Bond defines ethnocentrism as "the feeling that one's group has a mode of living, values and patterns of adaptation that are superior to all others." It's also coupled with a generalized contempt for members of other groups.
		Sumner, in 1904 defined ethnocentrism as "the view of things in which one's own group is the centre of everything and all others are scaled and rated, in reference to one's group.
		The conclusion is that we are all ethnocentric to varying degrees because "we are born into a culture at birth and we cling to that culture as a bulwark against chaos and the terror of death."
	www.cic.sfu.ca /forum/BondNov221997.html (1894 words)

	The New Criterion — The ethnocentrism of Clifford Geertz
		The New Criterion — The ethnocentrism of Clifford Geertz
		It says that if you disagree with me, and support anything other than my position on ethnocentrism and cultural diversity, you are a morally bad person who will open the way to a bleak future for the human species.
		It hoped that the accomplishment of these objectives would be fostered by the kind of interpretive anthropology that Geertz and his colleagues practiced, by drawing large conclusions from small, densely textured facts and supporting broad interpretations about the role of culture in the construction of everyday life.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/21/oct02/geertz.htm (4324 words)

	Ethnocentrism
		The challenge was to define the terms "anthropology", "ethnocentrism", and "cultural relativism" and how they related to me in a personal matter.
		Ethnocentrism is using one’s own familiar customs, thought patterns, and culture as the measuring stick in the evaluation of another’s customs, thought patterns, and culture.
		As a matter of fact, many in the Deaf community have their own brand of ethnocentrism, feeling sorry for us poor hearing folks because we cannot fully experience the blessing of being deaf.
	www.donnakat.com /dcmpe (1705 words)

	STATE LOYALTY AND ETHNOCENTRISM
		The ethnocentrism model posits that pro-ingroup and anti-outgroup attitudes are strongly associated.
		Although differing in not being psychodynamic, the theories of Sherif (1966) and his successors did (at least initially) also share the assumption that it is attitude to the ingroup that dictates attitudes to outgroups.
		The prediction that the ethnocentrism model gives of regional loyalties is clear: People valuing their regional identity highly (e.g.
	jonjayray.batcave.net /stateloy.html (4406 words)

	TurkoTek Discussion Forums - Is ethnocentrism OK?
		The subject of ethnocentrism has come up in several places in the past few days, and it's made me think much more about it than I had in the past.
		I think that discussions and claims of ethnocentrism are less useful when they are made at some level of generality (e.g.
		The anthropological definition of ethnocentric is, an adjective describing the condition of viewing and judging (often in pejorative terms) other cultures and societies according to the (usually taken-for-granted) assumptions of one’s own society.
	www.turkotek.com /salon_00101/s101t13.htm (1838 words)

	NetLogo Models Library: Ethnocentrism
		This model, due to Robert Axelrod and Ross A. Hammond, suggests that "ethnocentric" behavior can evolve under a wide variety of conditions, even when there are no native "ethnocentrics" and no way to differentiate between agent types.
		An "ethnocentric" agent is one which cooperates with same colored agents, but does not cooperate with different colored agents.
		This model is a NetLogo version of the ethnocentrism model presented by Robert Axelrod at Northwestern University at the NICO (Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems) conference on October 25th, 2003.
	ccl.northwestern.edu /netlogo/models/Ethnocentrism (716 words)

	Culture of Critique: Preface (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ethnocentrism would thus be of no importance at all in combating the physical environment, and such an environment would not support large groups.
		The practice also bespeaks a relative lack of ethnocentrism because people are taking in non-relatives as household members whereas in the rest of Eurasia people tend to surround themselves with biological relatives.
		Given that ethnocentrism continues to pervade all segments of the Jewish community, the advocacy of the de-ethnicization of Europeans -- a common sentiment in the movements I discuss in CofC -- is best seen as a strategic move against peoples regarded as historical enemies.
	www.csulb.edu /~kmacd/books-Preface.html (16397 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.
		I agree with the author when he says that there is a fine line between ethnocentrism and racism, but I also disagree where he is a proud person living in a country that goes to war with other countries because they do not believe in our democratic government.
	txfx.net /2004/04/19/justifying-american-ethnocentrism (1690 words)

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