The
mindset that YOUR
culture is better than all those other cultures out there. The way your
ethnic group does something is quite simply the only way to do a certain thing, and no other way has occured to you. Can be a function of
ignorance as well as
arrogance.
The
shock when
residents of
middle eastern countries see
American women that are in
public unveiled. How can those
ruffians allow their women to be seen that way? Also the shock when Americans see that middle eastern women aren't allowed to be out unveiled or to even have
jobs.
A more
notable one perhaps, and one that I take
personal issue with, is
male circumcision. It is standard in US
hospitals to
circumcise male infants. Yet
female circumcision is considered
horrendous by
western culture. Yet in many
states in
Africa it is considered quite
normal. Ethnocentrism at it's best, if you ask me...
I want my foreskin back