Ethnocentrism is the tendency to believe that one’s ethnic or cultural group is centrally important‚ and that all other groups are measured on one’s own cultural value. Ethnocentrism happens when one culture or nation places itself at the top of a self proclaimed hierarchy of cultures and nations and subsequently assigns other cultures and nations equivalent or lower value based on that scale. In other words‚ it is the proneness to think other cultures are of lesser worth because it is different
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The Causes and Solutions to Ethnic Conflicts Scholars of International Security have been trying to develop a theoretical approach to explain the causes of ethnic conflict for a long time. These studies have led to contentious debates but have also probed so deeply that their findings help shed new light on these issues‚ providing better understanding and possible solutions. Ethnic groups are defined as a community of people who share cultural and linguistic characteristics including religion
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Self Awareness and Cultural Ienditiy I am a 27 year old female who was born into a white‚ middle class‚ college educated family. My family’s cultural background is made up of Eastern and Western European nationalities. The largest percentage of my ethnic background is Lithuanian‚ but there is also a mixture of English‚ Irish‚ Danish‚ Scottish‚ and French. For the most part my ethnic background has not played a large part of who I am today. I am a fifth generation American so our family has long
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Ethnocentrism is the tendency to believe that one’s ethnic or cultural group is centrally important‚ and that all other groups are measured in relation to one’s own. The ethnocentric individual will judge other groups relative to his or her own particular ethnic group or culture‚ especially with concern to language‚ behavior‚ customs‚ and religion. These ethnic distinctions and sub-divisions serve to define each ethnicity’s unique cultural identity. Some ways to overcome the ethnocentrism:
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According to the book titled Working with Conflict: Skills and Strategies for Action written by Simon Fisher and team (2000)‚ there are theories that explained the cause of social and cultural conflict‚ which are: 1. Relational Theory The relational theory tends to discuss ethnic or identity based conflicts. The nature of people to interact with individual or groups from different backgrounds‚ cultures and values are the causes that could trigger conflict. Especially for groups who share common resources
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purity‚ used the idea that some sex was dangerous and negative. These activists had ideas on sex that affected people of different ethnicity as well. In addition to being exclusionary‚ this movement allowed for sexual practices of people from different ethnicity to be deemed as dangerous. In her text titled “Ethnicity and Sexuality.”‚ Joanne Nagel writes that “ ethnicity and sexuality are strained‚ but not strange bedfellows. Ethnic boundaries are also sexual boundaries-erotic intersections where people
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The impact of Ethnicity‚ Gender‚ Geographical Differences and Age on Individual Behavior The new era in business is facing with the globalization‚ and globalization brings diversity. Diversity is a very real aspect of the American’s culture. How does diversity impact individual behavior? According with Hung Ng (2005)‚ “humans exist not only as unique individuals‚ but also as members of social groups that are formed on the basis of ethnicity‚ gender‚ age‚ and so for.” These dual aspects of the human
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Was Othello of African or Arabic descent? In the famous play Othello by William Shakespeare the topic of Othello’s ethnicity is a very widely discussed topic. Most people get to the‚ in my opinion‚ erroneous conclusion that Othello was of sub-Sahara African descent (black). The opposing point of view’s position is that he was of Arabic‚ or North African descent‚ which as I will attempt to explain throughout this paper is‚ in my opinion‚ correct. The main points people who believe that he was
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for the cult of ethnicity. In theory political correctness sounds like a very reasonable idea and when looked at very shallowly this remains the case. When it is more thoroughly looked at thought it dangers become more and more apparent. By creating a set of “correct” terminology and assigning each ethnic background a name that separates them from the main culture of America we run the risk of further exaggerating the potentially volatile situation created by the cult of ethnicity in the country today
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Often times we think of race and ethnicity to have the same meaning. However‚ there is a quite large difference in the two. Race usually pertains to the biological aspect‚ whereas ethnicity tends to describe the culture of an individual or a group of people. When I say that race pertains to biological differences I am talking about psychical differences. Race
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