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Ethnocentrism

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INTRODUCTION
anthropologists use the term ethnocentrism to depict the assessment that one's own
particular manner of life is superior from other societies. Some would fundamentally call it
social neglectfulness. Ethnocentrism infers that one could see his/her own specific manner
of life as the right way to deal with regular daily existence. For the people who have not
experienced various social orders all around can should be ethnocentric accepting they feel
that their everyday schedules are the most customary way to deal with encountering. A
couple of social orders may be similar or get over in contemplations or thoughts, regardless,
certain people are one might say, staggered to experience stands out they could insight from
individuals socially not exactly equivalent to themselves. In incredible cases, a get-together
of individuals could see one additional social orders way of life and consider it misguided,
thusly, the get-together could endeavour to change the other get-together over to their own
habits of living. Awful struggle and destruction could be the staggering result accepting that a
social affair is hesitant to change their ways to deal with day-to-day existence.
The imperatives from the concept of ethnocentrism arises from the view on the concept of
inter group relations, groups having deep bonds and extreme attachments consequently
generating hate towards outer groups of society some scholars claiming this to be universal
making this hate towards other and deep ingroup attachment as the two side of a coin,
however there is much diversity in this ideology as recent research have proved that the
hate and the attachments are separate phenomena. Ethnocentrism is developed among
societies first and thus the hate towards outsiders is generated later due to some other
reasons making ethnocentrism not corelated to hate but however they can be related under
specific conditions example war which can force groups towards unity, everyone having the
same goal of protecting their homeland and on other hand creating hate for the foreign
enemy another reason for a sudden rise of ethnocentrisms can be a famine increasing
ingroup unity.
Merits and demerits
Ethnocentrisms can boast a societies morale by improving an individual's self-esteem as to
extrapolate one's culture onto another there has to be attachment towards that culture and
having high self-esteem can bring great benefits to a society generating patriotism, love for
their culture, religion and boasting their bonds as they feel well connected towards each
other having a common ground, For the vast majority, they are acceptable around others
who are a ton such as themselves. We feel like we can act naturally around people that
behave in a similar fashion as to us. That craving for fellowship is then put on others from
different societies or identities with the suspicion that similar outcomes will occur. By the
day's end, somebody by and large feels happy with where they are in life when their
organizations build up the advantages of their viewpoint.
Ethnocentrism can bring unity in a group having common grounds but however the other
groups that don’t share the same ideology face friction from these groups ultimately creating
a massive rift among societies as an ethnocentric group tries to dominate other groups to
prove their culture to be superior in many ways. Individuals who will generally have an
ethnocentric perspective will generally fuse that perspective into each part of their life
spreading negativity, fights, deaths and even wars.
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