Besides the incommensurability of different traditions , ethnocentrism often makes a dialogue between different traditions merely nominal 此外,不可通約的文化傳統以及種族中心主義常常使對話有名無實。
Believing that criticism and knowledge are secular and worldly , said reveals that the whole academy of orientalism is constructed to be a way of domination and having authority over the orient and the discourses about the orient are mainly ethnocentric 對批評以及知識的世俗性的確信,使得賽氏得出了一個具有變革意義的結論:東方學是建構的,是種族中心主義的,其目的是凌駕于并且控制東方。
This new trend undermines the traditional teaching of history in primary and secondary schools , which is based on the ethnocentric approach , by which nation states use to strengthen national collective identity , often in opposition to other states 這一新趨勢削弱了傳統的中、小學歷史教學,傳統歷史教學建立在種族中心主義方法基礎之上,被民族國家用于加強民族集體認同(通常與其他國家相對立) 。
This special cultural structure includes the following cultural conflicts : the conflict between universalism and ethnocentrism , the conflict between totalitarianism and individualism , the conflict between the unbalanced development of market economy and achieving common prosperity , the conflict between the development of science and technology and the rampancy of scientism , and the conflict between radicalism and conservatism 這一特殊的文化結構蘊含著以下的文化沖突:一是普世主義與種族中心主義的沖突,二是總體本位與個體本位的沖突,三是商品經濟發展的不平衡與共同富裕的沖突,四是發展科學技術與科學主義泛濫的沖突,五是激進主義與保守主義文化心態的沖突。