ethnocentrism
My culture's best
Ethnocentrism is the tendency to view one's own culture as the standard against which all others should be measured—and usually found inferior.
It ranges from unconscious assumptions that one's customs are universal to active hostility toward foreign ways.
Her ethnocentrism made it hard to appreciate the cuisine abroad.
The adjective is ethnocentric.
Unjust differential treatment
- bigotryIntolerance toward differing views
- intoleranceUnwillingness to accept differences
- racismPrejudice based on ethnicity
- xenophobiaHatred of outsiders
chauvinism · sectarianism · nativism · scapegoating · exclusion · hostility · othering · stereotyping
Belief in unique superiority
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
- jingoismBellicose extreme patriotism
- supremacismIdeology claiming group superiority
- hegemonyDominant group's control
dominance · cultural imperialism · colonialism · Eurocentrism · Afrocentrism · civilizing mission · manifest destiny · orientalism
Understanding norms within their context
- ingroupExclusive social circle
- outgroupNon-members of one's group
- stereotypeFixed oversimplified notion
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
cultural lens · parochialism · narrow-mindedness · preconception · misconception · groupthink · tribalism · insularity
Study of human cultures
- cultural relativismUnderstanding norms within their context
- sociologyStudy of human communities
- postcolonialismStudy of imperial aftermath
- decolonizationEnding imperial control
discrimination
Unjust differential treatment
- bigotryIntolerance toward differing views
- intoleranceUnwillingness to accept differences
- racismPrejudice based on ethnicity
xenophobia · chauvinism · sectarianism · nativism · scapegoating · exclusion · hostility · othering · stereotyping · racial bias
exceptionalism
Belief in unique superiority
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
- jingoismBellicose extreme patriotism
- supremacismIdeology claiming group superiority
hegemony · dominance · cultural imperialism · colonialism · Eurocentrism · Afrocentrism · civilizing mission · manifest destiny · orientalism · primitivism
cultural relativism
Understanding norms within their context
- ingroupExclusive social circle
- outgroupNon-members of one's group
- stereotypeFixed oversimplified notion
assimilation · cultural lens · parochialism · narrow-mindedness · preconception · misconception · groupthink · tribalism · insularity · othering
anthropology
Study of human cultures
- cultural relativismUnderstanding norms within their context
- sociologyStudy of human communities
- postcolonialismStudy of imperial aftermath
- anthropologyanthropology, fieldwork, social anthropology, cultural anthropology, paleoanthropology
- discriminationracism, systemic discrimination, Jim Crow laws, sexism, racial harassment
- racismracism, racial bias, white supremacy, racial discrimination, bigotry
- biasprejudice, racism, bigotry, sexism, ageism
- ideologiescapitalism, communism, conservatism, liberalism, socialism
- narrow-mindednessnarrow-mindedness, narrowness, close-mindedness, closed-mindedness, close-minded
ethnocentrismcultural relativism
Understanding norms within their context
relativism · multiculturalism · pluralism · open-mindedness · moral relativism
ethnocentrismcosmopolitanism
Belief in shared humanity
universalism · globalism · internationalism · world citizenship · inclusivity