0 the belief that the people, customs, and traditions of your own race or country are better than those of other races or countries: --
1 belief that a particular race or culture is better than others --
Common barriers to this goal, though, include the problem of ethnocentrism - the pervasive, often unconscious belief that one's own culture is superior to all others.
But again, feminists may respond that ethnocentrism can be the more insidious for being built into politically unreconstructed intellectual agendas.
Consider the stock finding of ethnocentrism in laboratory groups.
Two other papers illustrated this concern for ethnocentrism very clearly.
Research in social psychology on stereotypes initially concentrated on the prevalence of prejudice and discrimination, particularly ethnocentrism and later sexism.
Ethnocentrism tempted me here to accept uncritically the physicians' views and to dismiss too readily the family's.
Yet enquiry into the nature of good governance need not be scuppered by ethnocentrism.
He saw the homogenising of the diversity of music endeavour as leading to ethnocentrism.