Sentences with word «ethnocentric»

Napaga Tia Sulemana was one of the strongest critics of ethnocentric comments by former Agriculture Minister William Quaitoo who was forced to resign.

A former deputy agric minister under the Akufo - Addo - led government was forced to resign under similar circumstance when he was accused of making ethnocentric comments, though he apologised profusely.

The former journalist stressed he has been forced to go public with those comments because «President Mahama has recently been targeted by all sorts of critics for allegedly making ethnocentric comments in his campaign trip up North.»

Let us remember that her notion of «old - fashioned» and «common - sense» is as ethnocentric as they come; it ignores a wealth of history and cross-cultural differences in what constitutes parenting.

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), has asked President John Dramani Mahama to apologize for making some comments deemed ethnocentric against the running mate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.

Christianity is amazingly complex and diverse, and it was never intended to be a uniform religion of ethnocentric beliefs.

«Should he fail to quit this office voluntarily and now, we call on the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, to fire him immediately as a mark of his revulsion against this unprovoked and reckless ethnocentric bigotry against the entire people of the three Northern Regions».

Akufo - Addom's comment comes on the back of a wave of bashing President John Mahama received for making some remarks deemed ethnocentric against the running mate of the NPP, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.

Is most Western art not ethnocentric too?]

Comments like this, with ethnocentric undertones, make the New Patriotic Party look bad in northern Ghana, she added.

@ Charm Quark: 1) you said: «saying Christianity is increasing among the poor and uneducated...» that's a rather ethnocentric perspective.

The historic participation of the Rwandan churches, especially the Roman Catholic Church, in reinforcing ethnocentric thought and behavior both in public life and in the church itself.

In a world shrunk by travel and communications technologies, one which can no longer afford conflict arising from ethnocentric prejudice, the appreciation of other religious and cultural views is necessary for the survival of the human species.

Please note in many ideologies all forms of ethnocentric nationalism are looked down upon.

A portion of a statement issued by the former President read: I find it distasteful that aside making ethnocentric references accusing the NPP Presidential candidate of being tribalistic, she also insinuated that because I was the Founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the electorate in the Volta Region should vote for the party on that basis.

Hartman sees Maimoni dean messianism as being able to inspire a more universalistic Jewish ethics and politics than the more ethnocentric view of Halevi.

«We are demanding that he should, immediately, on his own volition resign as a minister and quit from Parliament, failing which the President must sack him to show his revulsion against such ethnocentric tribal bigotry,»...

Somehow you have convinced yourself that it's all hunky - dory in the end and you trust this ancient ethnocentric god of the Israelites and what they claimed «he» «said» and wants.

Those that keep mentioning what the cross represents (sins of humanity) are taking an extremely ethnocentric side to this argument, as well as showing circular logic.

hmmm I think Kyle has it right... «To call something like this «stupid» only displays the inherent ethnocentric bigotry that is so prevalent in our society.»

According to the MFWA, ``... while campaigning in the Upper West Region, the President of Ghana and leader of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), His Excellency John Dramani Mahama opted to use very ethnocentric and divisive campaign language.

A group in the Northern region has rejected the apology by Deputy Agric Minister William Quaitoo after he made ethnocentric remarks about farmers in the north.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) legislators want President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo to fire the deputy agric minister «as a mark of his revulsion against this unprovoked and reckless ethnocentric bigotry against the entire people of the three Northern Regions».

The former deputy minister was heavily criticised for making what many considered ethnocentric comments with regards to people from the north in the heat of the destructive fall armyworms invasion.

According to Kim, in an egocentric and ethnocentric world where people spend an estimated 80 percent of their time thinking about themselves, this leaves little opportunity to understand someone from another culture.

The liberal individual seeks to manipulate and dominate Dasein, while Dasein animates the rooted, ethnocentric man who lives the thereness of reality.

Now, they see Buhari's as the most ethnocentric government Nigeria ever had.

Women's work, folk art, ethnocentric art, and self - taught art have all come into focus, as with the tapestry collage of Miriam Schapiro, and this gallery specializes in them.

Until Peter goes to Cornelius and the Spirit is poured out on Gentile flesh the story is still ethnocentric.

Perhaps, these two lessons in fact are the same: Ethnocentric perversion of the concept of divine election destroyed both the Jewish communities of Europe and the influence of the Church.

However, the way she worded it came off presumptuous and more than a little ethnocentric.

Chiefly one who can rationalize and weasel that ancient ethnocentric Israeli fantasy deity out of its monstrousness.

Keener notes that Hume possessed an expressly and virulently ethnocentric outlook.

Is there a way to partake in community development and discipleship without ethnocentric posturing, without railroading context and culture and wisdom?

Isaiah (and all of the OT) = ethnocentric, «We da» best!»

This is THE most obnoxious, uneducated, and just the most hyper ethnocentric post I've seen in the entire annals of my life's history

His efforts to keep God at the center and to counter facile ethnocentric approaches are particularly welcome.

He hopes to correct the common Jewish interpretations of chosenness that lead to «ethnocentric supremacy, cultural isolation, and the defamation of other religions.»

It is further a gentile people, universal, and therefore superior to the old, ethnocentric Jews.

It seems a shame that de Lubac was not among the Catholic authorities she consulted, for he might have mitigated her outrage at ethnocentric Christianity.

The Third World taught me how ethnocentric that preoccupation was: secularization is today a worldwide phenomenon, it is true, but one far more entrenched in North America and Europe than anywhere else, so that a more global perspective inevitably provides a more balanced view of the phenomenon.

Such history often makes intriguing and interesting reading, but at bottom it has heavy ethnocentric and anachronistic strains.

I find that to be totally ethnocentric.

Fundamentally, how should we evaluate these ideas of the good while steering clear of the equally dangerous poles of relativism and ethnocentric generalization?

Left leaning Libertarians tend to feel that nationalism is a bi-product of groups however ethnocentric nationalism may imply potential harm placing undo stress unto the other groups though that would be further left Libertarians with the more center left would just say it is fine so long as it is not violating Nonaggression principle

Where as other ethnocentric forms of nationalism are then seen as Equalist movements to balance the roles of power and revolting against the oppressors, see Malcom X for instance.