Ethnocentrism In Richard Beck's Us Against Them

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Richard Beck, in this online blog article, creates an extension of his previous review of Us Against Them, a book, by authors Kinder and Kam (who have written two other articles on the same subject) about ethnocentrism, in which he expands the subject and provides detail about what ethnocentrism is, ways in which it is prejudice against certain groups or individuals and how it can decline within and individual through education about culture and other related subjects. This article, therefore, is more political in nature. It focuses mainly on the political aspects of ethnocentrism and how the two correlate. The book in which the author quotes from frequently is more than certain to be a credible source, and it seems as if this author is too,