Sentences with phrase «ethnocentrism when»

I was guilty of ethnocentrism when I harshly evaluated his family's Thanksgiving traditions.

Not exact matches

Even when there is no intent, subconscious or otherwise, to teach ethnocentrism and prejudice in our nation - state systems, the presentation of news (e.g. of damage done to people by earthquakes, avalanches, or wars) about distant peoples in a context of passive entertainment and commercial announcements as typically happens In western TV, radio and press fosters indifference.

A similar irony, I think, struck Derrida (though I'm not a fan, generally) when he said that the very idea of ethnocentrism was ethnocentric!