ethnocentrize

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verb

To make ethnocentric.

Scrabble 27

Meanings

verbethnocentrize (third-person singular simple present ethnocentrizes, present participle ethnocentrizing, simple past and past participle ethnocentrized)

present singular third person ethnocentrizes · participle present ethnocentrizing · participle past ethnocentrized · past ethnocentrized

  1. To make ethnocentric.

    Comparable issues arose - about privileging the observer's perspective and about ethnocentrizing.

    1999, Linda Briskin, Women's Organizing and Public Policy in Canada and Sweden
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    Does a core curriculum that embraces a multicultural approach qualify as a successful program when it provides self-contained, ethnocentrized courses juxtaposed to traditionally Euro- and androcentric counterparts?

    1993, Robert Stevens, The Core and the canon: a national debate, page 232

    As an American Jew, I feel that assimilation is killing my people too. There has to be a balanced, non-rascist^([sic]) way for all of us to remain who we are and not use self pride as a way to "ethnocentrize"

    1996, Steve Schultz, “Re: Indians and Seperatism-^([sic]) C. Peltier”, in alt.native (Usenet)

Origin

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