Compounding the
ethnocentricity, King (2017:105) maintains that 'Heppell, like his mentor Freeman, has adopted Haddon's evolutionary assumptions that Iban woven cloths embody a "language of symbols"'.
The chance was lost in the looting and grabbing and
ethnocentricity that began all too soon.
"What happened in Quebec really shows the
ethnocentricity of the current American leadership in terms of considering the US market as superior to all others.
It is when social facts are artificially separated from the moral conditions of their making--as often happens in the attempt to be "value free"--that distortion, subjectivity, and
ethnocentricity make their way into scientific practice.
Some of the Latin American women movie directors the author examines challenge societal norms such as heteronormativity,
ethnocentricity, sexism, and socioeconomic discrimination, says Roberts-Camps, while others defy patriarchal society, repressive governments, and the Catholic Church.
If one can say that the book's archival erudition is commendable, its
ethnocentricity and celebratory arc may be said to be its greatest weaknesses.
All civilizations are self-centred, but the ancient Chinese famously excelled at
ethnocentricity.
[8] But then, there is no good reason, other than maybe
ethnocentricity, why creative beadworkers from across the continent couldn't have "invented" or used this alternative to filling in beaded backgrounds.
On the other hand, the absence of non-majority perspectives from ethnic minority and (im)migrant communities expresses the
ethnocentricity of the majority (see Vrecer).
This study looked at socio-cultural variables that influenced college students'
ethnocentricity. Its significance to local and international marketers lies in the beneficial understanding of student-consumers' reasons for buying domestic versus imported goods in terms of selecting their target markets and in formulating appropriate marketing strategies (Kammarudin, Mokhlis and Othman, 2002).
While these hegemonistic developments have caused a reaction of alarm in non- English-speaking countries, there is a growing awareness of the need to free international English from native-speaker
ethnocentricity. More and more non-native writers who agree to adopt an internationally-used language such as English want to retain a personal style in their additional language.