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    If a view is ethnocentric, it treats your own people, nation, or group as the normal centre, and measures everyone else against that. Other ways of eating, greeting, raising children, or running a school get called strange, less clever, or “not how things should be.” English uses this word with a : it is not a compliment. You meet it in school essays, anthropology, and news comments about bias, not in everyday chat at the night market. Though actually, it is not exactly the same as racist. Racist talk is about ranking people by race, often with hate or unfair treatment. Ethnocentric thinking can sit inside that, but it can also be quieter: “our way is just common sense.” People also stretch it to companies or fan groups that cannot imagine any other habit as reasonable. The adjective describes the attitude; the matching nouns are and, less often, .

    民族中心的、種族中心的(帶貶義)

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組成From ethno- (“people, nation”) + -centric (“with this at the centre”).

同家族的字

  • ethnicboth start from the same ethno-/ethn- piece, from a Greek word for a people or nation
  • egocentricboth end in -centric, meaning ‘with this at the centre’
  • ethnocentrismthe usual noun for the idea; ethnocentric is the adjective

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

ethnocentricadj

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    Of or pertaining to ethnocentrism.

    • The third ethnocentric approach [to halakhah] is extremely pragmatic. The greatest threat to the survival of the Jewish people today is assimilation and intermarriage. For thousands of years the mitzvot have protected the Jewish people from these threats and ensured Jewish continuity.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。