Antedating of "Ethnocentric"

[Fred Shapiro]

ethnocentric (OED 1900)

1899 _Amer. Anthropologist_ I. 433  As the perception of relation
proceeds, the lowly egocentric system becomes ethnocentric and then
democentric.

Fred Shapiro


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