Nationalism, Ethnocentrism, and the New World Order

After the collapse of Soviet Communism and the Gulf War, this article concludes that psychology may help to understand the events we did not anticipate. Anxious news is the permanent vitality of ethnocentrism - also known as nationalism and tribalism. In the context of the Second World War "Psychologist Declaration" and the 1986 "Sevilla Violence Statement", this article partially evolved using the moral equivalent of William James, partially We propose humanitarian interpretation. In war, consider the impact on society. policy

One form of ethnocentricism that could be a problem is nationalism or excessive enthusiasm for a country. Nationalism usually includes the idea that a particular country has the advantage of God's gift or historical assertion. For example, this nationalism was a special issue of Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Sociologists are trying to avoid racism-centered judgment. Instead, they generally accept the idea that cultural relativism, or culture, should be evaluated sociologically according to their own criteria rather than from other cultural perspectives. Therefore, sociologists point out that there is really no good culture or bad culture. They can better understand other cultural standards. They do not think that their culture is better.

Certain prejudices are particularly related to larger and more traditional cultural concepts (ie, culture as a state). According to the definition of 1906 terms by sociologist Robert Sumner, he refers to his own culture (1975) to evaluate others, but ethnocentrism is drawing attention as a research field. Other sociologists quickly began to distinguish between the concept of "centrality" and the concept of "superiority". "- A person's culture or group is superior to other people's culture or group.If nationalism is viewed as superiority, nationalism (or school spirit or religious loyalty, etc.) is a loyalty to their group You should focus only on the mind or emphasis. Other people's defamation may say that they can not be proud of their own group if they do not contempt or think about other groups to some extent Hmm.