Ethnocentrism

The Real World In Michel de Montaigne’s essay, “Of Cannibals,” he speaks about the noble savages of the New World who people in Europe misjudged because of their cultural beliefs and practices. He recognizes that Europeans are resistant and unwelcoming of foreign traditions. Montaigne compares the savages to fruit, and claims that Europeans think fruit is wild, but, “…in truth, we ought rather to call those wild whose natures we have changed by our artifice and diverted from the common order”…

Genocide, the deliberate killing of a mass group of people. Something that some believe couldn’t possible happen in today’s world. As we go about our daily tasks, there is a horrific slaughter taking place in Iraq against the Yazidi people by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). I believe if ISIL were to become aware of their ethnocentricity, there would be an improvement in the genocide taking place. In Iraq, there is a group of people known as the Yazidi. They practice an…

good examples of how men keep women in subordinate positions. Female circumcision and menstruation taboos incite debates between cultural relativists holding a conservative ideology and radical activists determined to eliminate the practices. Ethnocentrism is an ideology in which people believe that their culture is superior in comparison to the cultures of…

Ethnicity Race and Racism Research Project. Rough Draft “ An ethnic group is a group that has been incorporated into a state through conquest or migration, that maintains distinctive cultural and linguistic traditions, and that has a sense of a separate, shared, and age-old identity”. (208, Harris). Essentially, its where your from, not like where you were born but where your grandparents were born. I call my self an Irish American because my Great grandparents are from there, just like if…

It’s another holiday celebrated with my extended family from across the country. We are a talkative and outgoing family that can get into some pretty heated conversations, especially the conversation about the new residents in town. The conversation was heading in a negative directions so this is when I had to step in, take a look at how I spoke up and turned the conversation into a new direction with new perspectives for my family to think about. My family kept going on and on about how the…

work without addressing this, for this tone is very much the point. In deciding to impart the necessity of viewing other cultures from a prism devoid of ethnocentrism, Miner reveals much about the ways in which we, as a society, view ourselves. This should be viewed as the primary impetus for Miner’s article, because the danger in ethnocentrism is the tendency to engage in myopic viewpoints that serve to divide society (Schaefer, 2011). In his emphasis upon the fact that westerners often put…

Before I decided to take this course, I had my own perception of diversity. I always thought that diversity refers to the differences in cultures, traditions and languages within a multicultural society. The book refers to diversity as “all the ways in which people are different” (Bucher, 2015, p. 2). Through this course I have learned that diversity could be also within a society with people of the same nationality. My perceptions of diversity has changed a lot during this course because now I…

Race, the idea that the human species is divided into distinct groups on the basis of inherited physical and behavioral differences we see that race can be interpreted in many ways such as physical description and being described as a color wheel. Canada has been a multicultural and multiracial society. People arrived from all parts of the world and from all walks of life. There are five identifiable stages to the history of Canadian immigration. Each stage is characterized by at least one…

Colorado Boulder. We also did some research on specific events that occurred in Colorado as our final project. All of the events were focused on intersectionality of race, sexual orientation, gender choice, colonialism, cultural appropriation and ethnocentrism. One of the most interesting and new information that I learned in this class was the story of “Los 5 de Boulder”. We looked at newspapers and online resources from that time about everything that happened with the Latinos during their…

Bethel University – College of Professional Studies is my first college experience. I had to analyze the courses I have completed thus far, trying to figure out which ones would fall under the liberal arts category. I have determined the HIS2120 U.S. History II, ENG1010 English Composition I, and HIS4400 African American History courses are liberal arts. All the other courses I have taken are electives. That being said, the three courses have broadened my knowledge and have taught me how to…