Question

Jennifer, a white American, believes that the customs of her own culture are superior to those of other cultures. As a result, she judges members of other cultures based on the standards of her own culture and considers them inferior. This scenario best exemplifies __________.

A. xenocentrism
B. ethnocentrism
C. scapegoating
D. cultural relativism

Answer 1

Ethnocentrism is the belief that one's own culture is superior to others and judging other cultures based on one's own cultural norms. option b.

Step-by-step explanation:

Such attitudes are examples of ethnocentrism, which means to evaluate and judge another culture based on one's own cultural norms. Ethnocentrism is believing your group is the correct measuring standard and if other cultures do not measure up to it, they are wrong. Such attitudes are examples of ethnocentrism, which means to evaluate and judge another culture based on one's own cultural norms. As sociologist William Graham Sumner (1906) described the term, it is a belief or attitude that one's own culture is better than all others. Almost everyone is a little bit ethnocentric.