Learn Anthropology: ethnocentrism - the notion that one’s own culture is so superior that no other culture is worth consideration. Ethnocentric people often imagine that the world would be a much better place if the beliefs, values, and practices of their own culture were spread to or imposed on everyone else in the world.

Word

ethnocentrism

Meaning

the notion that one’s own culture is so superior that no other culture is worth consideration. Ethnocentric people often imagine that the world would be a much better place if the beliefs, values, and practices of their own culture were spread to or imposed on everyone else in the world.

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Course

Anthropology

Lesson

1.3 Overcoming Ethnocentrism

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