week 11 question 3

A concept in this chapter that interested me was the part of ethnocentrism. It states that ethnocentrism is the belief that ones' own culture is superior to all others and the tendency to judge all cultures by one's own criteria. Recently I was watching the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and in it the girl's father is so full of pride of his greek's heritage, he believes that every word is derived from Greek language. It is a great movie about love and his ethnocentrism plays a very funny role. It just shows how he believes his culture is the best and that without it their lives would be totally different and not as useful. This movie, every time I watch, reminds me that we mustn't think that we are the only people who are right about our own culture and that with our melting pot that we live in here, we must always keep an open mind and that there is no right culture or wrong culture.