CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ethnocentrism is the tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one’s own culture. Part of ethnocentrism is the belief that one’s own race, ethnic or cultural group is the most important or that some or all aspects of its culture are superior to those of other groups.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ethnocentrism is a term applied to the cultural or ethnic bias-whether conscious or unconscious-in which an individual views the world from the perspective of his or her own group, establishing the in-group as archetypal and rating all other groups with reference to this ideal.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ethnocentrism compares other cultures by using a group’s specific culture as the basis of that comparison, believing theirs to be superior and the standard to be used in comparison to other cultures. Cultural relativism, on the other hand, believes that culture is understood best through its own people.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ethnocentrism occurs when one has the belief that their own cultural group is superior to others. Individuals who are ethnocentric will believe that their culture’s beliefs, ideas, values, and practices are correct, and they use the standards in their own culture to assess other cultural groups.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ethnocentrism is the belief that one’s ethnic in-group is superior and that ethnic out-groups are inferior. It also suggests the appropriateness of judging the world from the perspective of one’s own ethnic group.