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    “Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism” “Niwas Katel” “03/02/2015” “Introduction to Sociology” “Professor Bob Young” Ethnocentrism stands in contrast to Cultural Relativism in a manner that in ethnocentrism, an individual finds his ethnicity at the center of comparison and views the world from the angle of his own culture and ethnicity. In Ethnocentrism, a person believes that his ethnic group, race or culture are the most important one and most or at least some of the aspects of his…

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    Ethnocentrism in Focus This essay will focus on how ethnocentrism has impacted my life, and in turn, my self-concept. Before we delve into the effect ethnocentrism has had on my life, this term must be explained. Ethnocentrism is the belief one’s culture is superior to all others. Culture can be defined as: religion, race, nationality, political standing, or any other established group of people. Examples of ethnocentrism can be seen across the world, in nearly any setting in which people…

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    There are many concepts that were addressed. Three of these concepts are; institutional racism, ethnocentrism, and discrimination. These issues are not positive attitudes or behaviors, and a person should always be aware of the things that they say about someone else’s values, beliefs and practices. This will diminish any unnecessary conflicts and allowing everyone to express themselves freely. Institutional racism is a practice that many people today are affected by, or have experienced. This…

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    Mental Illness and Ethnocentrism As a psychology major, I have been very curious to see what conclusions we can make about the human mind when looking through an anthropological lens. Naturally, when presented with the opportunity to look at anthropological research of my own choosing, I looked for something with strong psychological implications. I chose to examine an article written by Susan Abbott and Ruben Klein titled Depression and Anxiety among Rural Kikuyu in Kenya. Although it was a…

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    I, for one, do not believe in American ethnocentrism especially when it comes to our criminal justice system, as long as there is at least one other country that has produced better results. One example of where the American criminal justice system falls short is the rate of recidivism; based on data gathered by Latimer et al (2005), over half of all criminals who were released from incarceration went back to jail. This is compared to most Scandinavian and a few other European countries that…

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    SITI ZUBAIDAH BINTI NORDIN (S 38525) 2.6 CONSUMER ETHNOCENTRISM Consumer ethnocentrism is defined as the beliefs held by customer about the appropriateness, indeed morality, of purchasing foreign-made products (Joe Lopez & Ashutosh Zunjur, 2016). This means that customer who is having that attitudes trusted that buying product from abroad is unpatriotic, causes loss of jobs and abuse the domestic country. But the study indicates that Indian consumer who are ethnocentric tend to have the positive…

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    The answer to the question of how much ethnocentrism is too much is that it is too much when they start viewing other cultures to be less important than theirs. This could result in problems such as reduced diversity. The ethnocentric culture will fail to accept other people cultures and thus bring about racism and discrimination. As a result, there can be a crisis especially an economic crisis whereby other nation will cease doing trade with the ethnocentrism country. This will make everything…

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    Ethnocentrism is “the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture” (Macionis). Cultural relativism is “the practice of judging s culture by its own standards” (Macionis). It is trying to understand the culture based on the customs within it. It is trying to understand a culture by accepting it and not using your own culture to judge theirs. It is difficult because the person must remain objective and not critique it. Ethnocentrism is used to find the similarities…

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    What role did ethnocentrism play in European imperialism, and colonization in Africa? The whites from surrounding continents and countries perceived the blacks as people beneath them because of their color of their skin and what is taught and and believed in all the different white cultures. Also that their lives and land are to be owned by whites and willed to do what the whites will them to do because they supposedly had no meaning to their lives and weren’t the same and didn’t look the…

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    when she goes to dinner her lack of experience with certain utensils causes her to experience culture shock. Many times throughout the movie Vivian is met with much judgement from the social culture she has been exposed to. Another example of ethnocentrism is when Edward first takes her to his penthouse, she has gone into the bathroom and is flossing her teeth, when Edward walks into the bathroom and he believes that she is trying to hide drugs that he thought she was going to…

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