Thursday, June 19, 2014

[Extra] Ethnocentrism

Ethnocentrism


Is an attitude that is lacking in the superiority of their culture, to assess negatively the other cultures.
William G. Sumner created the term "ethnocentrism" upon observing the tendency for people to differentiate between the in-group and others. The character culture-centric, there is be a means of social integration and the formation of the stagnation of the nation, but fallen into chauvinism ethnic, religious to be a little, to induce conflict of racial and ethnic it is possible there is a risk, leading to international isolation.
Anthropologists such as Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski argued that any human science had to transcend the ethnocentrism of the scientist

Cultural worship of the powerful to the contrary, in the attitude of humility or look down on their culture of the rest of or longing to best, are revered, a particular culture is that it inhibits the development of character culture and character culture-centric it can not be viewed as the attitude of cultural understanding in the correct point.

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