Word: ethnocentricism
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This flirtation of Black student organizations at elite colleges with the venomous forms of ethnocentric Black populism associated with the Nation of Islam is, unfortunately, not new. Since the middle 1980s, intellectually infantile clusters of African-American students at Princeton University, Rutgers University, the University of Massachusetts--Amherst, etc., have...
Because everything's relative. (Or, philosophical skepticism in more academic circles.) This is the most common argument driving both multiculturalism and political correctness. It says: If you're intolerant of different beliefs and lifestyles, you're not only being arrogant (e.g. ethnocentric, phallocentric, etc.) in thinking that your values are...
Asmara hints at its Ethiopian roots by hanging a sparse collection of traditional artifacts on its pristine white walls. The place is small, but does not achieve maximum coziness because of the hospital-like sterility. Even the bathroom contributes to this atmosphere by selling exorbitantly priced $1.00 condoms. Ironically, the...
Mansfield said yesterday he will respond this week to accusations that his comments were ethnocentric, insensitive or racist.
Erik Thompson, a Minnesota native and Stanford grad who served for there months in a Federal prison camp for trespassing on nuclear site says he is "focusing on peace and justice" in his campaign. But he is afraid that the American population might be a "greedy, ethnocentric, bunch of barbarians...