How to Use ethnocentric in a Sentence

ethnocentric

adjective

• The review was criticized for its ethnocentric bias.
• Hanging over the search for a native speaker is all the ethnocentric baggage that the concept implies.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• Launched in late 2013, the Vox party campaigns from an ethnocentric platform and has proposed building a wall to keep out Moroccans.
  — Diana Spechler, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2019
• The people of Refugio have a strong, ethnocentric identity and a grit and determination born of being raised in harder times than these.
  — Carmen K. Sisson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2017
• Both were ineffectual, weighed down by ethnocentric divisions between the Akan and the Ga, and dominated by lawyers and wealthy merchants.
  — Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-Gyampah, Quartz Africa, 7 Aug. 2019
• To say that feminism is like Nazism is to say feminism is murderous, is ethnocentric violence.
  — Alexa Mikhail, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2021
• The ethnocentric responses reflected by the poll are not unusual.
  — David Filipov, Washington Post, 26 June 2017
• Netflix’s Lupin, a Black French series about an international cat-burglar, a non-ethnocentric character, had 75 million viewers globally in its first month of airing.
  — Court Stroud, Forbes, 3 June 2021
• That sort of ethnocentric cry, designed to stifle dissent and rally a political base, has helped fuel totalitarianism around the world.
  — Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, 18 July 2019
• His Ba'ath Party is fiercely nationalist and ethnocentric, focused on the promotion of Arab identity.
  — Liz Sly, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2017
• Then the state department of education put forward a model curriculum so extreme and ethnocentric that the state Senate’s Democratic supermajority balked.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2020
• Fifty years later, international businesses still behave in a very ethnocentric manner.
  — Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• Ethnocentric suspicions of minority groups in general, and attitudes about blacks in particular, influence whites’ opinions about many issues.
  — Toni Monkovic, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2016
• Plus, if applied with suitable leverage and departmental support, this is a force strong enough to counterbalance the historical tendency toward anthropocentric and ethnocentric approaches that tend to advantage narrow learner self-interest.
  — Amandeep Midha, Forbes, 18 May 2021
• My American upbringing had steered me to a pretty ethnocentric assumption: that in a totalitarian government, defiance would exhibit itself as bluntly and topically as in the United States, just with additional concealment.
  — Stacey Anderson, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
• To Bruckner, ecologism is both ethnocentric and counterproductive.
  — Charles C. Mann, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2014

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024