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- Title
A Study of the Ethnocentric Elements in Leanne Howe's Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story.
- Authors
Arputha Raj, V. David; Sindhu, S.
- Abstract
There are many diverse cultures in the world. Each culture has numerous ethnic groups within it. An ethnic group is a socially defined category of people who identify with each other based on common ancestry, social and cultural practices, homeland, religion, dialect, mythology and physical appearances. Each ethnic group has different traditions, behaviours, habits and habitat. When all these differences meet at a same place called society or country, there begins misunderstandings and hatreds among different societies or countries in the world. This hatred and misunderstanding arise primarily due to ethnocentric attitude. Ethnocentrism is the tendency of understanding the world only from the viewpoint of one's own affiliation and assessing others strictly based on the terms of their own ethnicity. This paper attempts to analyse in detail ethnocentrism, its characteristics, types, causes and effects, through the Native American novel Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story by LeAnne Howe, which talks about Native American culture, its people, habits, habitats in detail and also the suppression of the Native Americans by the White Americans, in addition to highlighting the causes for all the problems with reference to selected novel.
- Subjects
ETHNOCENTRISM; MIKO Kings: An Indian Baseball Story (Book); HOWE, LeAnne; NATIVE Americans; ETHNIC groups
- Publication
Language in India, 2016, Vol 16, Issue 8, p4
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article