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A differentiation arises between ourselves, the we-group, or in-group, and everybody else, or the others-groups, out-groups. — William Graham Sumner · 1906Ethnocentrism is the...view of things in which one's own group is the center of everything, and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it...Each group nourishes its own pride and vanity, boasts itself superior, exalts its own divinities, and looks with contempt on outsiders. — William Graham Sumner · 1906