It is called with the term of ethnocentrism to that ideology that sustains and proposes that one's own culture and race turn out to be superior to the rest.
Ideology that elevates one's culture and race above the rest, considering the other inferiors
That is to say, whoever promotes this trend tends to give pejorative treatment to other ethnic groups and cultures, and of course, contrary to that action, they will exalt their own, basically because it is a extremist stance.
In this sense, it is very important to mention that precisely because it is a hyper extreme position is that is on the limit, and many times it goes beyond it, to be violent against those who have a different culture, even pretending their total eradication.
It is based and sustained on the discrimination of the other
Another common consequence of ethnocentrism is the discrimination of everything that does not conform to one's own cultural proposal.
Nazism its most cruel and emblematic expression
NazismUndoubtedly, it is one of the most emblematic expressions of ethnocentrism and, on the other hand, reprehensible and despicable that can be found in history, for the actions that it carried out in its name, that is, it ruthlessly persecuted and murdered thousands of Jews because he considered these a race inferior to his own.
As we know, Hitler, promoted the idea that Jewish civilization was inferior and then it was proposed to fight it and make it disappear with the most violent maneuvers and tools such as imprisonment in very poor conditions in concentration camps where they were forced to carry out forced labor and also killings making use of the most cruel methods.
One of these bloody methodologies has been that of the gas chamber, which consisted of a sealed chamber into which a gas with poison is introduced, or which is plausible to suffocate people or animals.
The Nazis were its greatest cultists in the framework of World War II, and of that war particularly aimed at the Jewish people.
These chambers were arranged in underground places that were simulated as collective showers.
They were isolated and it is estimated that between one thousand and two thousand five hundred prisoners could enter it; death came in a few minutes for all of them, in not much more than 25 minutes.
A high-ranking Nazi committee ordered its use as part of its project in 1941 and it lasted until the fall of Hitler, producing bloody and enormous massacres of people.
With this method, the Nazis concretized their plan, popularly known as the final solution, and later called the Holocaust, and which, as we saw, basically consisted of deporting or exterminating every Jewish person from the face of the earth.
It is easy to recognize an ethnocentrist since we will hear things like: “our policy is the best, this custom of mate is one of the most unpleasant and primitive that I have seen in this country", among other.
The usages and customs, the way of speaking, the way of behaving, the beliefs and the religion, are usually the objects of judgment of the ethnocentrism and then on them will fall all the weight of the rigor of the.
It should be noted that in ethnocentrism, everything that is analyzed will always be done under the proposals and parameters that the culture itself supports.
Arrogance and arrogance, of course, will dominate that look on the different.
All those differences that one culture presents with respect to another are those that will ultimately determine cultural identity.
On the path opposite to this stream we find ourselves at Cultural Relativism that by valuing one's own culture and calling to exalt national values also proclaims respect for other cultures.
Although in some parts of the world and in some people there are remnants of extreme ethnocentrism, we must say that in recent decades, and as a consequence of the tragedy of the Holocaust, the practice of despising the other only because they do not profess the same ideas, the same culture, or because it has another race is not recurrent, even more, it is widely condemned by most of the people.
Also in this sense of improvement, globalization has influenced, a phenomenon that generated that in one part of the world, for example, in a European metropolis, various cultures coexist harmoniously.
Undoubtedly, ethnocentrism is a nefarious and questionable ideology due to the discrimination on which it is based and which, as we have already seen, in some cases displays very violent situations.
