Ethnozentrismus - Definition and translations of Ethnozentrismus

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Ethnocentrism

Rildo Oliveira

The tendency of most people to use their own way of life as a standard for judging others; now also indicates the belief, on the part of most individuals, that their race, culture, society, etc., are superior to all others.

Rildo Oliveira (src: http://www.google.com.br/url?sa=X)

"Edward Said (1981), for example, charges that Western media coverage of Islam not only simplifies complex cultural and historical causes and consequences into journalistic clichés, but is also often marked by ethnocentrism and even racism."

Rildo Oliveira (src: http://mediaguidetoislam.sfsu.edu/coverage/01a_review.htm)

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Anthropology

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Portuguese

Etnocentrismo

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Rildo Oliveira

Postura comportamental que implica na adoção dos próprios parâmetros culturais para a consideração do outro e que freqüentemente corresponde a uma presunção de superioridade, por parte de quem julga, relativamente ao 'outro' assim tomado em perspectiva.

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Rildo Oliveira

"O seu romance trai um etnocentrismo profundamente arraigado."

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Rildo Oliveira

German

Ethnozentrismus

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Manuela Boccignone

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Italian

etnocentrismo