Sentences with phrase «with ethnocentrism»

He emphasised that «we are all Ghanaians first despite our diversity, and that it was dangerous for anyone to play mischief with ethnocentrism just for electoral gains.»

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Sociologists also deal with such topics as the components of culture, i.e., beliefs, values, language, and norms; cultural dynamics; cultural integration; cultural change; ideal culture, what people profess to follow, and real culture, how people actually behave in relation to these claims; ethnocentrism, the proclivity to see one's culture as the best and consequently all others as inferior; and cultural relativity.

I agree with missingthenw that the comment by «anonymous» (re: eating ants, etc.) displays quite a bit of ignorance and a high degree of ethnocentrism.

The major personality factors that influence support for human rights either negatively (e.g., ethnocentrism, the authoritarian personality, the social dominance orientation) or positively (e.g., «identification with all humanity,» dispositional empathy, principled moral reasoning) are reviewed.

The researchers found that the IWAH was stable over time, distinct from a general empathy and tendency to identify with others, and was more than the mere absence of authoritarianism, social dominance and ethnocentrism.

The study identifies new components of consumer ethnocentrism, establishing, in consultation with other research on the topic, five distinct dimensions in the process: prosociality, in which the interest of one's country is more important than one's own; cognition, or interpreting the world from the point of view of one's own ethnic group; insecurity, or regarding foreign products as a threat to the domestic economy; reflexiveness, meaning that one's ethnocentrism is automatically activated; and habituation, in which ethnocentrism becomes a habit.

It took me too many years to really question the ethnocentrism of the English curriculum, far too often taking the easier path of sticking with the literature that spoke to me.

If they see only reflections of themselves, they will grow up with an exaggerated sense of their own importance and value in the world - a dangerous ethnocentrism.

One reports that confronting people with climate - change warnings provoked higher levels of ethnocentrism among residents of a central European nation — and decreased their intentions of acting in Earth - friendly ways.