Meanings
present singular third person ethnocentrizes · participle present ethnocentrizing · participle past ethnocentrized · past ethnocentrized
- 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 Sweden2 more examples
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 232As 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)
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