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"Xenocentric" is an adjective usually referring to a person who has a strong tendency to prefer other cultures and/or nations, or even foreign things, to his own culture or nation or to familiar or domestic things. Usually the adjective would not be said to apply to someone who merely likes to travel and see other places, people, and cultures, or who likes to decorate his/her house with foreign items; rather, "xenocentric" connotes not only a positive feeling about the foreign, but also a kind of categorical embrace of the foreign hand in hand with a repudiation of the familiar or domestic, in a prejudicial way that does not vary with the specific substance of the items, persons, cultures, or nations. If one comes to believe that nearly any nation is better than one's own, for instance, or that all Zambians or Chinese are qualitatively "better" than Americans, without having accurate and substantive reasons for believing so, that might be considered a xenocentric attitude, in the same way a irrational (or nonrational) prejudice toward one's own culture or nation is considered ethnocentric.
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Where would you find pictures about xenocentrism?
Many paintings by Henri Matisse contain xenocentric subjects. His xenocentric paintings can be found at the Musee National d'Art in Paris and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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xantippe (bad tempered woman), Xenomania, xenophobe, xenon gas. xmas, xylophone x-ray
What is the example of xenocentrism?
An example of xenocentrism is when someone believes that products or ideas from foreign countries are superior to those from their own country. This can manifest in preferences for foreign brands over local ones, or admiration for foreign cultures over their own.
