HOW USEFUL IS ETHNOCENTRISM AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN? —“Dear Curt, You write pret

HOW USEFUL IS ETHNOCENTRISM AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

—“Dear Curt, You write pretty regularly about Anglo, French, German, Russian, Spanish etc ethnic characteristics. In the United States, how useful is this kind of ethnocentrism? Is it relevant that Caesar revered the Macedonian Alexander, and that Alexander revered Greeks like Achilles, and Diogenes? I also remember Caesar passed through a tiny, poverty stricken Gallic village and said, “I’d rather be first in this village than second in Rome.” Is this “ethnocentrism”?”—

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