Sentences with phrase «ethnocentric world»

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.

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The world accepting spritualities tend to be ethnocentric, meaning that membership is largely determined by geographical proximity and genetic identi / ty.
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.
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.
At any rate, don't you think it's time your ethnocentric publication recognized the fact that professional football is not limited to the NFL - AFL, and that the Green Bay Packers are not the «world champions,» but only American champions?
Moreover, that measuring solitary infant sleep, in the context of bottle feeding is appropriate is ethnocentric as solitary sleep is unique to a small corner of the world, the industrialized West..
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