Origins and effects of group ethnocentrism and nationalism

Abstract

Sumner, who coined the word, described &dquo;ethnocentrism&dquo; as &dquo;this view of things in which one’s own group is the center of everything, and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it.... Each group nourishes its own pride and vanity, boasts itself superior, exalts its own divinities, and looks with contempt on outsiders. Each group thinks its own folkways the only right ones, and if it observes that other groups have other folkways, these excite its scorn&dquo; (1906, p. 13). While definitions of &dquo;nationalism&dquo; are numerous, one might think of nationalism as being an individual disposition involving

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