Associations to the word «Ethnocentrism»

Wiktionary

ETHNOCENTRISM, noun. The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.

Dictionary definition

ETHNOCENTRISM, noun. Belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky