Anglocentrismn.
/ˌaŋɡlə(ʊ)ˈsɛntrɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌæŋɡloʊˈsɛntrɪz(ə)m/, /ˌæŋɡləˈsɛntrɪz(ə)m/ Anglocentric ideas, attitudes, or behaviour; a tendency to regard English culture, society, or language as pre-eminent.
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1956 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 40 373 The author is perhaps guilty of Anglocentrism.
1967 Q. Rev. Biol. 42 467/1 [He] successfully combats ‘anglocentrism’ and points up more universal aspects of language acquisition.
1984 Washington Post 11 Nov. (Book World section) 4/3 His parody of this piece of High Empire britannica emphasizes..Haggard's extreme anglocentrism, which judges the world by the yardstick of British behavior.
1989 N.Y. Times 4 June vii. 3/2 The thing that always annoyed me about traditional Irish historiography was the paradox of its Anglocentrism.
2004 D. Belart & T. McIntyre in S. Sutton et al. SAGE Handbk. Health Psychol. xiv. 404 Asian and European cultures have different norms and expectations about health and behavior that challenge this Anglocentrism in our knowledge base.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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