Which statement is NOT ethnocentric?

• A. Ethnocentrism uses one's own culture as a yardstick to measure all others.
• B. Ethnocentrism promotes patriotism and national sovereignty and promotes stability and pride, yet danger in the nuclear age.
• C. All of these statements are ethnocentric.
• D. The Gross Domestic Product in the United States exceeds the figure in Mexico.

Answer: (D)

Ethnocentrism means evaluating other cultures by the standards of your own and often treating your culture as superior. A statement that says using one’s own culture as a yardstick to measure others clearly fits that idea, and a statement that ties national pride or sovereignty to a sense of cultural superiority can also reflect ethnocentric thinking. The GDP comparison, on the other hand, is a neutral, factual economic observation about two countries and does not judge cultures or imply that one culture is better than another. Because it doesn’t express bias toward any culture, it isn’t ethnocentric.