Definition of ethnocentrism
: the attitude that one's own group, ethnicity, or nationality is superior to others
- Yet Brumidi was ignored, the victim of ethnocentrism and snobbery. Though he became a citizen in 1857 … American-born artists cast him as a foreigner and resented his painting Capitol murals.
- —Sheryl Gay Stolberg
- When it comes to programs targeted at the poor, ethnocentrism correlates with stinginess …
- —Matthew Yglesias
