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…Communicating with a Different Culture – Practice can ensure easier communication with cultures. · Avoid Ethnocentrism – Ethnocentrism is the idea that one culture is better than another. Obviously this idea is false, and must be avoided…

…to American life, the more it prospered. The more it prospered, the more morally bankrupt it became. Like clockwork, whenever Steward made a gain in finances, he was sure to take a blow to his morale. Anthropologists use the term 'ethnocentrism,' to describe…

…. The superior powers, such as the United States, are always looking to profit themselves. During the Mexican war and the Spanish-American War, the dominance and ethnocentric ideals that America held flourished in many un-called-for, disrespectful disputes…

…industry. Personal Issues Precision’s owners have an attitude of ethnocentrism—they want the company to remain American. They refuse to work with the Japanese or sell out to the Japanese. Garner and Avery stated that they would rather go bankrupt than…

…. It encourages an ethnocentric view of the family life and assumes the domestic role of women and power of men is correct and necessary. The family is the mechanism for passing inequalities to the next generation. Women in particular are disadvantaged…

…of aid to progress. “ Her proud declarations, are leaves on the wind.” We are a proud country, America, Blah-Blah-Blah we are superior. We are in fact ethnocentric crooks. The declarations of this country amount to some smoke up someone’s ass. A whole…

…. Feminists from developed countries must accept that it is a problem for African women, and that no change is possible without the conscious participation of African women. They must avoid ill-timed interference, maternalism, ethnocentrism, and misuse of power…

…aside from the ethnocentric use of the value-laden term modern, his theory remains ideologically rooted in a western sense of civilisation, the US model of a nation-state, and the capitalist from of economic system. Parsons also didn’t show how and why one…

…theories that I intend to discuss and draw ideas from include cultural relativism, universalism, and communalism. I will discuss each in their pure form as well as the toned-down versions such as Bhikhu Parekh’s non-ethnocentric universalism. From…

…because he was ethnocentric. He did not want to understand any culture, only saw them as powerless, and thought that his culture was superior to other cultures. Then again he thought that even whites could not compare to him. But unlike Charlie Wade…