What is the word for pride in one's own race [on hold]
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Someone informed me of this word years ago but I have forgotten it. I may be wrong but I think it began with 'p'
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Someone informed me of this word years ago but I have forgotten it. I may be wrong but I think it began with 'p'
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You have chauvinism, but it carries a negative connotation: the strong and unreasonable belief that your own country or race is the best or most important: The war stimulated an intense national chauvinism.
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Someone informed me of this word years ago but I have forgotten it. I may be wrong but I think it began with 'p'
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You have chauvinism, but it carries a negative connotation: the strong and unreasonable belief that your own country or race is the best or most important: The war stimulated an intense national chauvinism.
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You have chauvinism, but it carries a negative connotation: the strong and unreasonable belief that your own country or race is the best or most important: The war stimulated an intense national chauvinism.
– user240918
2 days ago
You have chauvinism, but it carries a negative connotation: the strong and unreasonable belief that your own country or race is the best or most important: The war stimulated an intense national chauvinism.
– user240918
2 days ago
You have chauvinism, but it carries a negative connotation: the strong and unreasonable belief that your own country or race is the best or most important: The war stimulated an intense national chauvinism.
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ethnocentricity is the belief that your own cultural or ethnic group is superior to that of another. (Study.com)
But be aware almost all terminology in this general area is potentially "loaded", and many people from other cultural or ethnic groups will say your ethnocentricity looks to them like racism. And if you happen to be Caucasian, they may say that makes you a white supremacist or worse.
Note that OP's question asks about having pride in one's race. In some closely-related contexts it's possible to be proud of something without necessarily implying it's "superior" to alternatives.
But so far as I'm aware, this can only really apply to contexts such as someone being proud of a poem they've written, even though they may recognise that it's not "objectively" superior by the standards of literary critics (cf It is a small thing, but mine own). That's to say, the pride in such contexts primarily attaches to one's own self (for having produced or chosen the thing in which pride is taken). Since you can't create / choose your ethnicity, I don't think it's credible to claim you can be "proud" of it without the pragmatic implication that it's in some way "superior" to other races you could have been born into.
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What about all the people who were proud to be of the same race as Martin Luther King or Nelson Mandela? That's not the same as believing that they're superior to others.
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ethnocentricity is the belief that your own cultural or ethnic group is superior to that of another. (Study.com)
But be aware almost all terminology in this general area is potentially "loaded", and many people from other cultural or ethnic groups will say your ethnocentricity looks to them like racism. And if you happen to be Caucasian, they may say that makes you a white supremacist or worse.
Note that OP's question asks about having pride in one's race. In some closely-related contexts it's possible to be proud of something without necessarily implying it's "superior" to alternatives.
But so far as I'm aware, this can only really apply to contexts such as someone being proud of a poem they've written, even though they may recognise that it's not "objectively" superior by the standards of literary critics (cf It is a small thing, but mine own). That's to say, the pride in such contexts primarily attaches to one's own self (for having produced or chosen the thing in which pride is taken). Since you can't create / choose your ethnicity, I don't think it's credible to claim you can be "proud" of it without the pragmatic implication that it's in some way "superior" to other races you could have been born into.
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What about all the people who were proud to be of the same race as Martin Luther King or Nelson Mandela? That's not the same as believing that they're superior to others.
– Barmar
2 days ago
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ethnocentricity is the belief that your own cultural or ethnic group is superior to that of another. (Study.com)
But be aware almost all terminology in this general area is potentially "loaded", and many people from other cultural or ethnic groups will say your ethnocentricity looks to them like racism. And if you happen to be Caucasian, they may say that makes you a white supremacist or worse.
Note that OP's question asks about having pride in one's race. In some closely-related contexts it's possible to be proud of something without necessarily implying it's "superior" to alternatives.
But so far as I'm aware, this can only really apply to contexts such as someone being proud of a poem they've written, even though they may recognise that it's not "objectively" superior by the standards of literary critics (cf It is a small thing, but mine own). That's to say, the pride in such contexts primarily attaches to one's own self (for having produced or chosen the thing in which pride is taken). Since you can't create / choose your ethnicity, I don't think it's credible to claim you can be "proud" of it without the pragmatic implication that it's in some way "superior" to other races you could have been born into.
answered 2 days ago
FumbleFingers
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What about all the people who were proud to be of the same race as Martin Luther King or Nelson Mandela? That's not the same as believing that they're superior to others.
– Barmar
2 days ago
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ethnocentricity is the belief that your own cultural or ethnic group is superior to that of another. (Study.com)
But be aware almost all terminology in this general area is potentially "loaded", and many people from other cultural or ethnic groups will say your ethnocentricity looks to them like racism. And if you happen to be Caucasian, they may say that makes you a white supremacist or worse.
Note that OP's question asks about having pride in one's race. In some closely-related contexts it's possible to be proud of something without necessarily implying it's "superior" to alternatives.
But so far as I'm aware, this can only really apply to contexts such as someone being proud of a poem they've written, even though they may recognise that it's not "objectively" superior by the standards of literary critics (cf It is a small thing, but mine own). That's to say, the pride in such contexts primarily attaches to one's own self (for having produced or chosen the thing in which pride is taken). Since you can't create / choose your ethnicity, I don't think it's credible to claim you can be "proud" of it without the pragmatic implication that it's in some way "superior" to other races you could have been born into.
answered 2 days ago
FumbleFingers
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ethnocentricity is the belief that your own cultural or ethnic group is superior to that of another. (Study.com)
But be aware almost all terminology in this general area is potentially "loaded", and many people from other cultural or ethnic groups will say your ethnocentricity looks to them like racism. And if you happen to be Caucasian, they may say that makes you a white supremacist or worse.
Note that OP's question asks about having pride in one's race. In some closely-related contexts it's possible to be proud of something without necessarily implying it's "superior" to alternatives.
But so far as I'm aware, this can only really apply to contexts such as someone being proud of a poem they've written, even though they may recognise that it's not "objectively" superior by the standards of literary critics (cf It is a small thing, but mine own). That's to say, the pride in such contexts primarily attaches to one's own self (for having produced or chosen the thing in which pride is taken). Since you can't create / choose your ethnicity, I don't think it's credible to claim you can be "proud" of it without the pragmatic implication that it's in some way "superior" to other races you could have been born into.
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What about all the people who were proud to be of the same race as Martin Luther King or Nelson Mandela? That's not the same as believing that they're superior to others.
– Barmar
2 days ago
add a comment |
What about all the people who were proud to be of the same race as Martin Luther King or Nelson Mandela? That's not the same as believing that they're superior to others.
– Barmar
2 days ago
What about all the people who were proud to be of the same race as Martin Luther King or Nelson Mandela? That's not the same as believing that they're superior to others.
– Barmar
2 days ago
What about all the people who were proud to be of the same race as Martin Luther King or Nelson Mandela? That's not the same as believing that they're superior to others.
– Barmar
2 days ago
add a comment |
You have chauvinism, but it carries a negative connotation: the strong and unreasonable belief that your own country or race is the best or most important: The war stimulated an intense national chauvinism.
– user240918
2 days ago