The Negativity of Ethnocentrism in Traditions

I remember being promoted to have a belief in culture, as ethnocentricism was traditionally negative from childhood. My family was brought up to obey my elders' instructions, which is what we did. On Sunday morning, my family and I have to go to church. Even if we resist scenes and make scenes, our penalty is neither video games nor television. For me it does not matter how our tradition will affect our daily lives. But now as an adult, I can see why people may think that some traditions are better or worse than others.

What is ethnocentricism? Ethnocentricism has three levels: positive, negative, and extreme. In a positive definition, ethnocentricism is defined as "people's own way of living takes precedence over the views of all others" (Herskovits, p. 21). There is no problem with this emotion ("Herskovits, p. 21), because" It expresses how most people feel about their own culture, expressing their emotions with words ". It is ethnocentricism, giving people the idea of ​​personality, group identity, historical status. These are all valuable features. "When my group is all centered, all other groups are measured and evaluated accordingly," ethnocentricism becomes negative (Sumner 1979, p. 13). When that rule is imposed on others, when it positively denies what they have, it reaches an extremely negative form (Herskovits, p. 103)

Ethnocentricism believes in the superiority of the state. Ethnocentricism seems to be bad, but ethnocentricism has good and bad sides. For ethnic minorities in a suppressed state, ethnocentricism allows the group to create and maintain identities for a long time. The downside of ethnocentricism is that ethnic group people look down on people in other countries. There are many reasons why we do these evaluations. One reason is that the United States is a very wealthy country and our infrastructure works well in most cases. Unconsciously this will make us think that our approach is better - or it will make us think that our approach is correct. When we encounter sufferings, illnesses and extreme poverty, which are plaguing a lot of people in developing and underdeveloped regions of the world, their poverty and suffering result from doing things in a "wrong" way I believe there is.