Examples Of Ethnocentrism In The Movie Avatar

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Ethnocentrism is that a person or group of people think that their beliefs, culture or norms are the only thing right and everyone else is wrong. They are close-minded and selfish around their own beliefs and religion. They become racist and nasty to others. There are many examples of this in the world because there is some ethnocentricity in everyone. The example that was interesting to me is the movie Avatar.
The movie is in the future, it is about a moon like planet called Pandora that is occupied by creatures that are blue skinned, 10 foot tall, and are called Na’vi. On earth the human are running out of natural resources. The humans are going to Pandora, in forms of Avatar a human Na’vi hybrid, to find a very valuable mineral that are

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