Ethnocentric, derived from the Greek words of Ethnos, meaning
race, people or cultural group, and Kentrikos, meaning concentrated
about or directed to a center is a word that greatly describes many
cultures on this planet we call Earth . The official definition of
Ethnocentric is " characterized or based on the attitude that ones own
group is superior" or "having race as a central interest". There is a whole
world of problems, politics, and, other cultures, but it seems that the
average American's only interest is that of themselves. The reason I chose
to focus more on the American being ethnocentric is because I have been
Why is it that in most foreign countries being knowledgeable
about world politics is just as important as their own culture's politics?
America is the melting pot of the world with so many different cultures
and we accept this variety into our country as we were accepted when our
ancestors came over. Today I feel that people are arrogant towards those
foreigners who don't wash away their former demeanor. Why don't we
realize that we are so lucky to live in a secure and free country that should
glorify diversity and not promote prejudice. When we make contact with
people whose beliefs and cultural tradition challenge our own perspective
most feel some sort of intimidation. Professor Michael Bond from Simon
"the mere existence of different others is inherently
threatening because they either implicitly or explicitly
challenge the absolute validity of one's own perspective.
According to this analysis, prejudice is a psychological
inability to tolerate the existence of different others and
results from a need to maintain absolute faith in one's own
Ethnocentrism in my opinion is very ignorant, unintelligen
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