Phrases with «cultural superiority»

"Cultural superiority" is a phrase used to describe the belief that one culture is better, more advanced, or more valuable than others. It implies that the specific culture has a dominant or superior position in terms of its values, traditions, beliefs, and achievements compared to other cultures. Full definition

Sentences with «cultural superiority»

  • Ingrained perceptions of cultural superiority of one group over others have led to conflicts such as the European invasion of the rest of the world to «civilize» them, and of Hitler Germany's attitude of ethnic purification towards Jews. (religion-online.org)
  • Pretty soon the likes of Einstein, Kepler, Maxwell, and Newton will have to be a fuzzy ambiguous creature of some sort so all the non-white non-Jewish kids who aren't Asian (i.e., the black kids) don't get any wrong ideas about ethnocentricity or Western cultural superiority producing such sheer conceptual and mathematical genius century after century. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
  • Second, Jewett adopts whole - cloth the latest fad in New Testament scholarship, which broadly terms itself as postcolonial, and reads virtually everything in the New Testament as a coded critique of the Roman Empire and especially of its claims of cultural superiority elaborated in the civic cult of the early empire. (religion-online.org)
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