Word: ethnocentricism
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Yes, for all your chanting and your slogans and your self-professed liberalism, you are just as ethnocentric as the rest of us.
Perhaps I should have known better. I should have been able to read the ethnocentric slant of the course in its syllabus: "...Still others whose work will be read or viewed have tried to understand not only how various 'different' people live, but to what ultimate...moral and religious or...
When asked whether a course devoted exclusivelyto Western civilization might be too ethnocentric,Ozment noted that the course includes somelectures on other civilizations. In addition, hesaid that the West has "grown and developed eitherby other cultures invading it or by it beinginvaded by other cultures."
Those who believe that the movement inflames nativist resentments got some ammunition this fall. The ethnocentric views of U.S. English's co-founder and former chairman John Tanton came to light when initiative opponents uncovered a 1986 memo in which he expressed worry that low white birthrates and high Hispanic...
THE DECISION by the Harvard History Department to introduce an optional course on Western Civilization may confirm to some the worst stereotypes of that department. Never known for its receptivity to the study of minorities, women or the cultures of developing nations, the department's introduction of a new course...