Ethnocentrism Quotes

Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.

DaShanne Stokes

The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we would condemn. By refusing to consider as human those who seem to us to be the most “savage” or “barbarous” of their representatives, we merely adopt one of their own characteristic attitudes. The barbarian is, first and foremost, the man who believes in barbarism.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.