ETHNOCENTRISM :

• is a judging another culture solely by the values

and standards of one's own culture.
• enthnocentrism individuals judge other groups
relative to their own ethnic group and culture,
especially with concern for
language,behavior,customs,and religion.
• this ethnic distinctions and subdivisions serve to
define each (culture) ethnicity's unique cultural
identity.
ENTHNOCENTRIC
• Judging other cultures using your own experience as a
measures of what is normal.
• Anything outside of your experience or knowledge use judge
abnormal, weird or wrong.
According to William G. Sumner, ethnocentrism is defined as the
“technical name for the view of things in which one's own group
is the center of everything, and all are scaled and related with
reference to it.

• He further characterized it as often leading to pride, vanity,

beleifs of one's own group's superiority, and contempt of outsider.

: In study of Anthropology
• ethnocentrism people are born into a particular culture that
grow up absorbing the values and behaviors of the culture will
develop a worldview that considers their culture to be the
norm.(standard)
• if people then experience other cultures that have
different values and normal behaviors, they will find
that the thought patterns appropriate to their birth
culture for the new cultures.
• Examples of ethnocentrism include religiocentric
constructs claiming a divine association like 'divine
nation'
One Nation under God”
God's Own Country”
God's Chosen People, and God's Promised Land.
An Ethnocentrism view

• Example:In Arabic the writing is different to

English and other Europian languages as you red
from right to left.
- rather than viewing writing from right to left
as”wrong”the person views it simply as
different.They recognise that their own culture is
one of many cultures with different practices and
traditions.
one’s own particular way of life is
superior and right and that all other
cultures are inferior and defective.
This kind of feelings tends to judge
other cultures in terms of the values
and norms of one’s own culture .In
this sense, ethnocentrism give rise to
the erroneous concept of –
 Ethnocentrism is the term anthropologists us to
describe the opinion that one’ own way of life is
natural
or correct.Some would simply all it cultural
ignorance.
Ethnocentrism means that one may see his\her
own culture
Perfunctorily regarding one’s
culture as superior and right in
comparison with other cultures.
Ethnocentrism – is the act of judging
another culture based on preconceptions
that are found in the values and standards
of one’s own culture – especially regarding
language, behavior, customs, and religion .
These aspects or categories are distinctions
that define each ethnicity’s unique cultural
identity.
What is an example of ethnocentrism?
▪ an example of ethnocentrism in culture is
the Asian cultures across all the countries of
Asia.
Throughout Asia, the way of eating is to use
chopsticks with every meal.These people
may find it unnecessary to find that people
in other societies, such as the American
society, eat using forks,spoons, knives,etc.
in society?
: It offers both advantages and
disadvantages prevents change for
the better.It is judge judging
others in terms of one’s own
cultural standards…
Even for meeting basic need such
as -
those involving reproduction, food , and
survival, humans rely on the culture they
have created.

: Ethnocentrism is”my CULTURE”the best

in every way.
What is ethnocentrism in culture?

_is the act of judging another culture

based on preconceptions that are found
in the values and standards of one’s own
culture –
Especially regarding language, behavior,
customs, and religion.
ETHNOCENTRISM - is the tendeny to think of your own culture as
the norm and to defend your culture as the only valid
worldwide. it is a common phenomenon and it is found in
many cultures.It is natural feature of humans and it is a
common in remote African villages as it is n modern Western
states.

There is a simple way to explain ethnocentrism and how it

works.
: Imagine a man who drive his car everyday and has been taught
to stay on the right side of the street when he goes to a country
where people drive on a left side.After he has returned home
he goes to his friends's house for dinner and then he says''It is
in the opposite way.They all drive on a wrong side!!