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- noun
practice of viewing the world fromEnglish orAnglo-American perspective, with an impliedbelief , either consciously or subconsciously, in thepreeminence of English or Anglo-Americanculture
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Examples
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But later in the decade, when U.K. punk exploded with protest songs like the Clash's class-conscious "White Riot," an overwhelming Anglocentrism begins to color Mr. Lynskey's account.
Angry Howls, Righteous Beats Michael Azerrad 2011
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She makes a number of good points, particularly about the Anglocentrism of the list.
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Second, in the fact that, minus the Anglocentrism, the writer is substantially correct in his observations.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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The element of the speech which struck me particularly was its intense Anglocentrism.
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Anglocentrism in the media and US economic/political domination have forced American media, and its attendant “beauty” standards into many other cultures, along with a plethora of other cultural beliefs and standards.
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Anglocentrism which inheres in their attitude after long years of ascendency; the alteration of which they have not yet learned to adjust to in the lessening of British influence in world affairs.
Irish History Branigan, J.F. 1966
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González will probably not be alone in gently chiding Carr's liberal assumption that an absence of ideology is not in itself ideological, finding the Puerto Rico book "permeated with Anglocentrism . . . dressed up with doses of British superiority and 'good sense' . . . and occasional condescension which made some of his assertions insulting to Puerto Ricans".
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