Definition Of Ethnocentrism

InContext: Elevating culture or discovering truth?

"Many problems with intercultural communication can be attributed to obstacles created by ethnocentrism, which literally means" the centrality of culture. "When his own culture is seen as central to all reality, values, assumptions and behavioral norms of this culture can be elevated to the position of absolute truth. There are several implications of this definition. First , ethnocentric beliefs about their own culture as a social sense of identity that is very narrow and defensive.Second, ethnocentrism normally involves the perception of members of other cultures in terms of stereotypes. Third, the process of ethnocentrism is such that comparative judgments are made between its own culture and other cultures under the assumption that his is normal and natural. Accordingly, the ethnocentric judgments usually involve invidious comparisons that its own culture while degrading to ennoble those of others. With these costs, ethnocentrism that establishes identity and belonging in the context of culture."One of the things I am trying to navigate, as a man of faith is the path between what you might see as two ends of a spectrum. In the end it is the cultural relativism of the non-anthropologist believers, who see all related human, cultural,. At the other end is ethnocentric religious faith, when in the name of God and the truth, people of faith have confused what is between them (man , culture on) what is of God (for example, assuming that some ways of worshiping God and life, their own, are universal).What I am looking for a balance, a lifestyle that is centered on knowing the truth, but in a non-ethnocentric. I am a disciple of Jesus and an anthropologist. As such, I am learning to love people, and learn to embrace cultural difference. I come from a more or less monocultural Scandinavian (depending on how you assess various Swedes and Norwegians to each other!). I grew up "Christian" in a midwestern U.S., the original expression of this great Swedish Baptist category. In college, I switched to anthropology and the wonder of understanding the role of culture in human life.After graduate school, I moved to the Arab world, and began a process of discovery of my own culture (and me) in the context of the culture of Muslim Arabs.

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