Human Rights and Ethnocentrism Presentation

Ethnocentrism has a two-fold meaning.

First, it refers to the natural tendency to see the world through the lens of your own culture. This involves accepting our cultural perspective as the way reality is and applying this assumption to our interactions with the world and other cultures.

Another way ethnocentrism manifests is through the belief that the way things are in our culture is somehow superior to others or that it's the right way. This stance also implies that other cultures are inferior and the way they operate is incorrect.

Globalization is seen as creating a global hegemony, or dominance and influence over others by the globalizing forces, in this way ‘rights’ have been spread across the world, for it is the creation of a combined will, which allows for differences to be examined through differences. This global hegemony has created forces which normalize ways of life. After WWII, with…