alleryStart learning →Judging another culture by the standards of your own culture is called what?
AXenocentrism
BGlobalization
CHabitualization
DEthnocentrism
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Ethnocentrism
1. People often assume their own way of eating, driving or greeting is the natural one.
2. Measuring another culture against that yardstick is ethnocentrism.
3. Xenocentrism is its mirror image, treating another culture as the superior one.
_Source: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 3 "Culture", Ch 4 "Society and Social Interaction" and Ch 5 "Socialization", section 3.1 What Is Culture?_
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