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…. "Tales that Textbooks Tell: Ethnocentricity and Diversity in American Introductions to International Relations." Paper presented to the biennial meetings of the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand Macquarie University. July 1998.…

…through the years and always has the potential to be a flash point for future ‘Troubles’. In an attempt to practice important cultural parts of their heritage, present day Nationalists, are easy targets of ethnocentric Unionists. The Nationalists believe…

…descendent theories such as ethnocentrism, which in turn has a base in stereotyping and in-group bias (Hogg and Adams. 1988). An experiment carried out by Tajfel (1971) demonstrated the theory of social identity by randomly dividing a group of schoolboys into two…

…of Chinese immigrants in Vancouver. From these discussions we are informed that Canadian immigration policy was historically ethnocentric and only began to change in the late 1960s. It was at this point that we see a more multicultural group of immigrants into our…

…of the new European Canadians, beyond their ethnocentrism, were anthropocentric in their view of the natural world, in accordance with themselves. They believed that humans were not part of nature and that nature is that part of the world devoid of human…

…that the majority of people who devise such tests are White, middle class, male and middle aged. Thus ethnocentrism has dominated some tests. Still to this day some psychologists believe that culture free IQ tests are possible, without realising that any…

…Americans being more ethnocentric, this view used to be true during the 1950's and 60's, where Americans held "the inclination to display an attitude of superiority". (Fatehi, 1996, p. 164) However, American managers believe this has changed due to a greater…

…strikingly illustrate the need for more cross-cultural, cross-national studies of the educational and science gender gap. As American (and European) scholars, we must be continuously on guard against ethnocentrically assuming that our own cultural models…

…was usually corporal. Premodren societies were often extremely prejudice and ethnocentric towards other societies. The Greeks, for example, believed that their society was the pinnacle of civilization. Their successors, the Romans, shared these same beliefs…

…, Mongolians, Hans, Fins, Kumaso and a large immigration of Koreans and Chinese from 300 AD to 700 AD (Riley, 2000). The Japanese Culture is one that is distinct and ethnocentric. Any military force (the U.S. occupation was considered too civilized) has never…