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A 3 page review of ethnocentrism. The author assesses both the negative and positive impacts of ethnocentrism. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Our modern world serves is being torn apart by a number of problems related to cultural relations. Ethnocentrism, although
it can have positive as well as negative impacts, is at the heart of most of these problems. Ethnocentrism is the tendency of a people to view the world
from the closely defined perspective of their own cultural group. In the negative sense, ethnocentrism entails a cultural bias on the part of the observer, a cultural bias which
can manifest in the many problems regarding cultural relations that we are currently witnessing. Ethnocentrism can, of course, have positive impacts as well as negative ones. It serves
to consolidate cultures and to strengthen them. From a cultural relativist perspective, however, when that strengthening and consolidation results in negative impacts to another culture then the positives of
ethnocentrism are overridden and in their place stands societal discord. The problems being attributed to Islam today have resulted primarily because
of ethnocentrism, ethnocentrism on the part of the Muslims and ethnocentrism on the part of those that are in conflict with the Muslims. This conflict illustrates the fact that
typically our cultures are divided into two distinctive categorizations separating those that are from our own cultural and ethnic background and those that are not (Little, Sterling, and Tingstrom, 1996).
This tendency for categorization results in the outlook of "us" verses "them" (Little, Sterling, and Tingstrom, 1996). When we view world events or even simple everyday happenings from
the closely defined expectations of our group we are utilizing an ethnocentric approach or a prejudiced approach. When we are more open to facts rather than our own expectations
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