The view that one's own culture is the center of the universe, and that one's own culture is the normal, natural, and correct way of thinking about and doing things is referred to as

a. xenophobia
b. homophobia
c. cultural-centrism
d. ethnocentrism
e. prejudice


d

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You should be willing to speak out publicly if a rhetor communicates in a way that _____ others

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