Ethnocentrism

Looking at other people’s social, cultural or ethnic realities from the perspective of one’s own cultural values and parameters. This often unconscious practice reinforces imaginaries and discourses on otherness and carries the danger of fostering racist or supremacist attitudes and feelings of incomprehension and contempt towards realities or groups that are not our own. Overcoming ethnocentric perspectives has led to a term such as ‘white slavery’, used to designate a form of male violence, being replaced today by ‘trafficking in women’.