| By its very definition, the perception inherent in Orientalism is racist, imperialist and ethnocentric. |
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| This does help to counter a traditional overemphasis on western societies and an ethnocentric bias in the treatment of other societies. |
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| We are proudly independent, ethnocentric, xenophobic, and nativistic, he argued, while showing off his flashy vocabulary. |
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| Either she'll be touched to be rediscovered or she'll be very, very indignant and hurl ethnocentric epithets. |
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| Instead of wit, he interpreted my jokes as racist and ethnocentric misinformation. |
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| Hence, his message was theocentric rather than ethnocentric, anti-Semitic, or anything else. |
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| They are totally unconscious of the latent racism which such a campaign evokes in countries where ethnocentric prejudice is so deep-rooted. |
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| The new communitarian thinking can be one way of accepting ethnic debates without sounding ethnocentric. |
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| This manifests, in my opinion, a clear-cut case of cultural and ethnocentric chauvinism on the part of the European scholars. |
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| We assert that it is culturally ethnocentric and logically absurd to relegate a universal phenomenon to the pathological domain. |
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| Nor should this be seen purely as a matter of cultural imperialism or ethnocentric prejudice. |
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| I wonder when you will see fit to take our government's ethnocentric and intolerant activities to task? |
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| All these wonderful values have unfortunately degenerated into ethnocentric arrogance. |
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| Yet the ancient paradigm of an empire was created east and west by peoples with a naively ethnocentric, Procrustean picture of the global community. |
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| As a folklorist trained in history, I have long been intrigued by the question of the historical validity and ethnocentric bias in oral history. |
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| I would have expected more discussion on intellectuals as producers of ethnocentric symbols of exclusion, ethnic self-aggrandizement, self-pity, and exalted martyrology. |
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| The most likely reason is a successful campaign by conservatives to portray the judge as a biased, ethnocentric activist. |
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| We are ethnocentric when we judge people's actions by our cultural criteria rather than by their own. |
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| We must not be ethnocentric, but certain questions definitely need to be addressed at the conference. |
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| Just being aware of your own tendency to be ethnocentric can be a great help. |
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| Beyond this, the editor made efforts to address and correct common misconceptions and biases found in ethnocentric texts and media coverage about the region. |
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| However, while I succeeded in producing a space for the validation of local voices, I am less certain that this in any way challenged parochial and ethnocentric perspectives. |
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| Nevertheless, many highly ethnocentric societies are not racist. |
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| The first generation of western historians to address the western environment as an agent in shaping the region reflected the ethnocentric preconceptions of their time. |
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| Such examination and subsequent awareness is not always easy because people have a tendency to be blind to their bias or ethnocentric perspectives. |
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| The British had a robustly ethnocentric view of their new sports. |
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| Will Herberg argued that American civil religion essentially was idolatrous worship of itself, merely propagating an ethnocentric American way of life around the world. |
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| Political, economic and military power is concentrated with nationalistic powers in the federation and cantons which have implemented decentralization for their ethnocentric purposes. |
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| Sue argues that ethnocentric monoculturalism defines a reality that puts white European American males at an advantage. |
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| A dangerous, and in some cases underestimated, disease which feeds on ethnocentric proclivities, often concealed and hidden, in some cases masked by seemingly democratic and legitimate acts. |
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| How can we guard against ethnocentric or monolithic thinking if we do not embrace a multiplicity of approaches and conceptions, embodied in all the nationalities of our colleagues at work? |
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| Mere contact with people from other cultures can actually reinforce our prejudices, our ethnocentric spectacles blinding us to anything but that which we expect to see. |
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| Identifying and curbing the activity of such ethnocentric languagist functionaries ought to rank high among Chicano political priorities. |
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| This also involves recognizing the ethnocentric ways in which mainstream cultures have often proceeded and making room for systems of thought that recognize both 'exoteric' and 'esoteric' forms of knowledge. |
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| The final essay is a reminder by Vesna Pesic that ethnocentric nationalism is a potentially dangerous and authoritarian force. |
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| Aristotle encouraged Alexander toward eastern conquest and his attitude towards Persia was unabashedly ethnocentric. |
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| More specifically, the paper investigates ethnocentric behavior of Azerbaijani consumers and its implications for marketing strategy development. |
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| But if you are Abkhaz, returning to the unpredictable, corrupt, ethnocentric and perhaps vengeful rule of the Georgian government probably looks even worse. As poverty increases, so may instability. |
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| They may well prove somewhat ethnocentric. |
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| If these changes are looked at from a modern Western point of view, ethnocentric judgments can be made as to whether they are on the whole favourable or unfavourable. |
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| Have our great cultural debates not appeared, at times, to be the talk of privileged and ethnocentric people who spurn the social and spiritual realities of non-Westerners? |
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| The inheritance of the Mobutu dictatorship, ethnocentric ideology with politically used racial hatred, especially between Hutu and Tutsi, is becoming worse. |
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| They have imposed ethnocentric, Afrocentric, and bilingual curricula on public schools, well designed to hold minority children out of American society. |
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| This is why ordinary religion is always both ethnocentric and egocentric. |
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| The result is an unacceptable ethnocentric bias, a false presumption of Canadian sovereignty and even a potential weakening of the moral basis of the Canadian state itself. |
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| Japanese and East Asians are ethnocentric, close-knit societies. |
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| It gives us perspective on our own birth rituals and beliefs, and enables us to question our ethnocentric assumptions about what is normal, healthy, and necessary. |
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