English to Shona Meaning of ethnocentrism - ethnocentrism

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Definitions of ethnocentrism in English

Noun(1) belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group

Examples of ethnocentrism in English

(1) This manifests, in my opinion, a clear-cut case of cultural and ethnocentric chauvinism on the part of the European scholars.(2) This does help to counter a traditional overemphasis on western societies and an ethnocentric bias in the treatment of other societies.(3) Beyond this, the editor made efforts to address and correct common misconceptions and biases found in ethnocentric texts and media coverage about the region.(4) Although individuation is viewed as the optimal path to identity development in some cultures, this is ethnocentric and biased when viewed in the context of other cultures across the world.(5) Such examination and subsequent awareness is not always easy because people have a tendency to be blind to their bias or ethnocentric perspectives.(6) Instead of wit, he interpreted my jokes as racist and ethnocentric misinformation.(7) For we are exemplifying the attitude we claim to despise; we would rather die than be ethnocentric , but ethnocentrism is precisely the conviction that one would rather die than share certain beliefs.(8) We are proudly independent, ethnocentric , xenophobic, and nativistic, he argued, while showing off his flashy vocabulary.(9) We assert that it is culturally ethnocentric and logically absurd to relegate a universal phenomenon to the pathological domain.(10) Equating the week with a seven-day rhythm is a result of an ethnocentric bias that is challenged through an examination of the surprisingly wide variability of the week's length in different parts of the world.(11) Such ethnocentric representation of the indigenous and the aboriginal suggests the poet's lack of sympathy with her environment - that is, her estrangement.(12) Nor should this be seen purely as a matter of cultural imperialism or ethnocentric prejudice.(13) However, while I succeeded in producing a space for the validation of local voices, I am less certain that this in any way challenged parochial and ethnocentric perspectives.(14) They are totally unconscious of the latent racism which such a campaign evokes in countries where ethnocentric prejudice is so deep-rooted.(15) By its very definition, the perception inherent in Orientalism is racist, imperialist and ethnocentric .(16) The new communitarian thinking can be one way of accepting ethnic debates without sounding ethnocentric .

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