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What does ethnocentrism mean?

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Noun
  1. The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
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The comments reveal an ethnocentrism in judging lower-class behavior using middle-class standards.
Australia was settled by Europeans as Western ethnocentrism meshed with racial ideas.
Rejecting the ethnocentrism characteristic of an earlier generation of anthropologists, Levi-Strauss refused to think of tribal cultures as primitive.
The best way to combat ethnocentrism is to encourage empathy at all levels of the firm.
The presiding judge was accused of positivism, ethnocentrism and various other isms.
I cannot believe the amount of ethnocentrism that I have encountered in a nation renowned for its cultural diversity.

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