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- noun Practising or the policies surrounding being
ethnocentric .
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Examples
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These days, though, such ethnocentricity is rightly considered disrespectful.
Word Court 2007
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These days, though, such ethnocentricity is rightly considered disrespectful.
Word Court 2007
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I am however first a human being and all this patriotism and ethnocentricity is appalling.
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I am often puzzeled myself by the ethnocentricity I encounter in so many American Christians, especially those who like alabamaoutlaw use a generic term (god) and assume that their version of Divinity has sole right to be defined by it.
Friendly religious questions for Christians and other monotheists 2009
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I am often puzzeled myself by the ethnocentricity I encounter in so many American Christians, especially those who like alabamaoutlaw use a generic term (god) and assume that their version of Divinity has sole right to be defined by it.
Friendly religious questions for Christians and other monotheists 2009
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In response to Anderson's Western European ethnocentricity regarding his disputable claim that all future and past nationalism and its associated liberation movements in India and elsewhere were modeled solely from Western theoretical paradigms, Chatterjee states:
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The confluence of religion and state allows ignorant ethnocentricity to attain the power of law.
Daniel Sokatch: The Unorthodox Solution: Embracing Pluralism And Reason In Israeli Society Daniel Sokatch 2010
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The confluence of religion and state allows ignorant ethnocentricity to attain the power of law.
Daniel Sokatch: The Unorthodox Solution: Embracing Pluralism And Reason In Israeli Society Daniel Sokatch 2010
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However, due to Western European ethnocentricity, envisaging such a scenario was beyond British colonial abilities at that time and, largely, still is today.
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British ethnocentricity eventually led British colonial rule to an untimely demise.
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