Sentences with phrase «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.

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.

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.

The issue, rather, is the cultural hegemony that arises from living within an empire that rejects barbarians as alien and boasts of Roman cultural superiority.

Stereotypes of the British as Victorian - era imperialists are as cack - handed and ignorant as jokes about the Germans still being Nazis, but they play well to her domestic audience, who are still bruised by the war and Argentina's perpetual obsession with its own cultural superiority - a sort of Japan of the Latin Americas.

According to an article in the Jakarta Post written after Australia's federal elections in March, «the Australian conundrum is to be accepted by Asians — with their unhappy experience in the past of Australia's presumed political and cultural superiority over them — as an Asian country».

Looking East for inspiration becomes an insidious form of Orientalism when the practice results in denigration or in the sense of an exclusive claim to cultural superiority for the West.

The Anglican (6 August 1993), Presbyterian (5 June 1994) and United churches of Canada (27 October 1998) apologized for the general presumption of cultural superiority as well as the often systematic sexual, physical, emotional and psychological abuse inflicted under their watch.

Attitudes of racial and cultural superiority led to a suppression of Aboriginal culture and values.

And how might they have done that in the face of the economic, military, and, yes, cultural superiority of Europe?

Throughout the early British period, the Muslims of India suffered a terrible economic, educational, and political loss, as they were suspect in the eyes of their new rulers and much too conscious of their erstwhile political, intellectual, and cultural superiority to be able to accept their new position.

Part of the change is clearly cultural: we no longer assume the cultural superiority of Western modernity.

Also, going with a like - minded companion makes you susceptible to feelings of cultural superiority.

If you want to move past snide insinuations of cultural superiority, you would be most welcome.