culturism

plural culturisms

1. countableA trend or tendency to promote one culture over the other cultures.

   Preserve these (if you have the narrator's permission to do so) for research into the interview situation, the narrator's personality, or the verbal culturisms of the narrator and her group.

   1977, Willa K. Baum, Transcribing and Editing Oral History

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   The Confucian ethic has been discredited, but no new ethic has taken its place. Women have been emancipated. The ancient culturism of the Middle Kingdom has been transmuted into nationalism, pride of culture providing the stuff for pride of race and nation.

   1946 September 1, John K. Fairbank, “Our Chances in China”, in The Atlantic

   Just as important is the recognition of those forms of theory, pedagogy and curriculum—vestiges of the 'humanist Victorian missionary'—that continue to visit the sins of culturism on children in classrooms.

   2003, Alex Moore, Teaching Multicultured Students: Culturalism and Anti-culturalism in the ...

2. uncountablegovernmentA right-wing political movement that opposes multiculturalism and promotes Western culture.