Ethnocentrism And Globalization

This source mainly talks about ethnocentrism with how it barely acknowledges the effects of historical globalization on developing countries and only focuses on the positives on the first world. The specific line of “superior standard of living shared by individuals in the developed world was achieved through historical globalization” sends a feeling of ethnocentrism to the reader as the author/quote never even mentions the developing world. Furthermore, it doesn’t say how historical globalization affected the developing world only how it benefits the developed world. Both of these makes it seem as if the developing world is insignificant and unimportant compared to the developed world since only they have this superior living. Moreover the …show more content…
The source makes the reader infer that ethnocentrism has lead or is a driving force of assimilation. Over the history of globalization many people along with their cultures have been completely assimilated or driven into extinction. With globalization bringing cultures together and with one thinking themselves to be more superior many cultures and groups of people have experienced this. One example of this can be seen in what had happened to the First Nations and the residential schools. When the Europeans first came to North America and Canada they believed the First Nations to be savages. They thought that their culture was stagnant, inferior to their own which resulted in them to try and educate/elevate them by teaching them European ideals. Within the residential schools children were taken away from their families, beaten, and forced to learn European ideals. Furthermore they were completely separated from their own culture in the process. This then resulted in an entire generation of this culture to be assimilated by being accustomed to European ideals instead of their own. Also these children when they grew to be adults didn't know how to teach their own children about their Native culture and beliefs. All of this was due to ethnocentrism with how the Europeans viewed the First Nations as superior and tried to teach them their “superior” culture. With how the First Nations culture is slowly dying out today and being more and more irrelevant shows how the ethnocentric views that the first European explorers had lead to assimilation. As such this idea of ethnocentrism leads to culture to believe others aren't as good as their own so they think they need to spread their own cultures ideas or force it upon others