Ethnocentrism

A cultural schema is

• A detailed plan of how a culture reacts to certain things

• A feeling for what is right or wrong in a culture

• A distaste for some aspects of a culture

• Knowledge of another culture

One meaning of culture is

• things like cinema and painting

• Music from a certain place

• all of these

• the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society

Is ethnocentrism

• positive

• negative

• not necessarily either

Some people believe ethnocentrism becomes negative when someone believes

• you are entitled to hurt people who are not from your culture group

• it's ok to be wrapped up only in their own culture

• the values, beliefs, ideas and practices of one's own culture are the best, the most valid, the most natural, the most human

The British took over control of other countries using the excuse that

• the other countries were not capable of ruling themselves

• the other countries were barbarous and needed to be protected from themselves.

• the people of the other nations were not Christian and needed to be converted

• all of these

The Chinese emperor believed he possessed

• very big armies

• the yin yang

• the mandate of heaven

• a natural right to rule

This meant his power to rule was

• part of a social contract

• divinely granted, but negotiable

• granted by vote

• divinely granted and absolute

An extreme form of ethnocentrism has led to

• genocide

• war

• discrimination

• all of these

Othering refers to

• liking other people

• hating everyone equally

• thinking one group is alien to you

• discriminating

Cultural relativism regards

• all cultural traditions as having some reason behind them

• everything another culture doe to be correct

• that some cultural ideas are intrinsically better than others

• that some cultural ideas are intrinsically worse that others