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ethnocentrism
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eth·no·cen·trism (thn-sntrzm)
n.
The tendency to evaluate other groups according to the values and standards of one's own ethnic group, especially with the conviction that one's own ethnic group is superior to the other groups.
ethno·centric (-trk) adj.
ethno·cen·trici·ty (-sn-trs-t) n.
ethnocentrism
[eth′nōsen′trizm]
Etymology: Gk, ethnos, nation, kentron, center
1 a belief in the inherent superiority of the "race" or group to which one belongs.
2 a proclivity to consider other ethnic groups in terms of one's own racial origins.


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He simply does not conform to the assumptions of most of those who have sought to narrate the course of politics in post-Reformation England, and certainly not those self-styled revisionists who have, for reasons that frequently remain unclear, clung to a weird kind of anglocentrism in order to argue that we can describe the Reformation in England without referring very much to what was happening on the Continent.
Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan England: Robert Persons' s Jesuit ... by Questier, Michael / Renaissance Quarterly
quot;(9) Faithful to what Bhabha aptly calls "fixation/fetishization of stereotypical knowledge as power," Said brilliantly rereads Williams through the following paradox: "Because Williams'' Anglocentrism is so pronounced and stubborn a theme in his work, because of that we can distinguish and differentiate the other ethnocentrisms with which his work in geographical and historical terms interacts contrapuntally.
Reading Raymond Williams, after Reading Edward Said Subhi Hadidi by subhi hadidi / Literature, writing, book reviews community
Pocock in 1975, who made the case for "a new subject" that might escape the Anglocentrism of "English history" and the narrow partisanship of "Irish history"--and, indeed, be more sensitive to culture and ideas than was the norm for political history in the mid-1970s.
British Identities and English Renaissance Literature by Hammer, Paul E.J. / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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