When I was growing up I would always here the phrase “Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover”, but now it seems like that phrase is meaningless and pointless. Today we live in a world where judging someone’s ethnic group or culture on how they live, what they eat, and how they dress seems so common that when we do it, we think that it’s funny and see it as some sort of entertainment. By doing this we fail to realize that we are being disrespectful towards a person culture and their beliefs. Whether people believe it or not we are conducting a form of racism called ethnocentrism. We tend to ignore the idea that the thought of racism was declining, but in reality it is still pretty much alive. We see ethnocentrism being displayed every day, but people
