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Ethnocentrism | June 03, 2005

This term, coined by the social evolutionist William Graham Sumner in the late 1800’s, is the tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own culture, race, or ethnicity. This then carries with it the viewpoint that one’s own group is superior and at the center of everything. Occurring in every culture, it, ironically, may be the one thing all cultures have in common.

Posted by admin at June 3, 2005 05:05 PM


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