Every culture in the world developed ethnocentrism. It's just human nature to see your own culture as normal and other cultures as abnormal. European ethnocentrism is just more well known because Europe was so powerful.
Ethnocentrism is the express of superiority over other races. For example, this used to be the philosophy of Europeans during the ages of imperialism. Today, no countries truly express ethnocentrism at a national level, but perhaps North Korea.
Interactions between the Native Americans and Europeans was customarily done from ethnocentrism on both sides. Europeans had two main ways of connecting with the natives. They either treated them in an inhumane way, such as making them slaves, or simply taking their possessions, or they were treated as heathens, who needed to be converted to Christianity. Natives either were willing to trade and work with the whites, perhaps due to earlier positive experiences with Europeans, or they were hostile based on what they felt was an encroachment on their territory.
Ethnocentrism is basically the belief that your ethnicity is superior to all others. For example, "Because of their ethnocentric beliefs, the first Europeans to visit Africa could not believe that there was any form of civilization in place."
Ethnocentrism is being focussed on one's own culture to the extent that one is unaware of or contemptuous of other cultures. For example, Europeans in the nineteenth century were appalled by the mode of dress of Africans because it was different from that of Europeans, although well-adapted to the African climate. Americans are often ethnocentric because American media rarely portrays any other culture, and when it does, it is assumed to be the same as American culture.
Ethnocentrism a noun.
Ethnocentrism can be both good and bad.
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Cultural ethnocentrism.
The Europeans thought the Africans couldn't handle the government themselves.
Cultural relativism was in part a response to western ethnocentrism
A banana. It has absolutely nothing to do with ethnocentrism and so is a perfect non-example.
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