LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
ETHNOCENTRISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM
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Question
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Is ethnocentrism
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positive
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negative
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not necessarily either
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following is true about ethnocentrism? Ethnocentrism makes you a better cross-cultural communicator. Ethnocentrism is the tendency to prefer the ideas of a culture other than one’s own. Ethnocentrism can be avoided by being sensitive to the various dimensions of cultural differences.
Detailed explanation-2: -Everybody is ethnocentric, as all of us around the world assume things about other people’s ways. The question then is not whether we have biases, but why are we ethnocentric? The definition given above emphasizes that we make false assumptions based on our own limited experience.
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