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• a  centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own

• The pro-sanctions crowd claims the moral high ground, deploring the enrichment of a clutch of ethnocentric Burmese generals whose impulses are most brutal against the roughly 40 .
• With Europe appearing ever distant, ambitious politicians on all sides have stepped up their nationalist, ethnocentric rhetoric ahead of elections slated for November this year.
• I don't mean to slight, in some ethnocentric way, the steadfastness and courage of the Iraqi people.

News & Articles

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• UK businesses failing to provide websites in foreign languages
  An ethnocentric attitude among business owners is leading to potential loss of revenue, particularly among business to consumer companies, according to new research findings released by UK-based translation and transcription services firm Global Lingo.
  Oct. 17, 2013 - BizReport

Quotes

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• Robert Gates in Los Angeles Times
  We should look askance at idealistic, triumphalist or ethnocentric notions : that imagine it is possible to cow, shock or awe an enemy into submission, instead of tracking enemies down hilltop by hilltop, house by house, block by bloody block,...
• Jesse Jackson in Chicago Tribune
  I think he has had to do, in a very masterful way, have a message that was very broad-based,Jackson said. "As broad from Vermont to Mexico, from Washington to Florida, and that's a broader message than an ethnocentric message."
• Jim Cramer in TheStreet.com
  with comments on emerging markets, specifically Brazil, Russia, India and China, or BRIC, Cramer said that it's time to "stop being ethnocentric," and that Brazil "comes across as being the best."