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ethnocentrism |
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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. It is coupled with a generalized contempt for members of other groups. Ethnocentrism may manifest itself in attitudes of superiority or sometimes hostility. Violence, discrimination, proselytizing, and verbal aggressiveness are other means whereby ethnocentrism may be expressed. ethnocentrismTendency to interpret or evaluate other cultures in terms of one's own. Generally considered a human universal, it is evident in the widespread practice of labeling outsiders as “savages” or “barbarians” simply because their societies differ from those of the dominant culture. Early anthropologists often reflected this tendency, as did Sir John Lubbock, who characterized all nonliterate peoples as being without religion, and Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, who found them to have a “prelogical mentality” because their worldview was unlike that of western Europe. The opposite of ethnocentrism is cultural relativism, the understanding of cultural phenomena within the context in which they occur. |
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She
points out, for example, how the fairy tales in The Brownies' Book
which were set in Africa disrupted widely read Anglocentric fairy tales
but also reinforced negative stereotypes of Africa in their description
of the continent as "a great unknown or else as an image of
primitivism from which the modern (and especially middle-class)
progressive African American sought distance. One of the problems with Anglocentric historians is that they fail
to acknowledge (or else play down) the close connection between Britain
and Germany before 1837: George III was not only King of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, but Elector of Hanover, and therefore a major
figure in the Holy Roman Empire. This mid-fifteenth century moment gives
Schuchard a starting point from which to retell British history from the
perspective of Scottish Freemasonry, a fascinating counterpoint to more
traditionally Anglocentric narratives. |
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