Is Cosmopolitanism something you associate with modernity ? Observe and give examples of enthnocentrism.
Observation and examples of enthnocentrism :
(i) The question of enthnocentrism arises only in that situation when cultures come into contact with one an another.
Enthnocentrism is the application of one’s own cultural values in evoluating the behaviour and beliefs of people from other culture. This means that the cultural values projected as the standard or norms are considered superior to that of the beliefs and valus of other cultures.
Example : During British Colonial rules in India Maclaya put his famous minute on education in year 1835 to the British East Company in India. Through his minute he had examplified enthnocentralism when he says,“we must at present do our best a form a class who may be interpreters between us and millions whom we govern, a class of persons India in blood and colour but English in taste, in opinion, morals and intelect.
