A nurse believes that the best treatment for illness is the use of Western medicine and alternative therapies should not be used for healing. This is an example of:
a. Ethnocentrism
b. Cultural imposition
c. Racism
d. Stereotyping
A
Ethnocentrism is the belief that one's own cultural group determines the standards by which another group's behavior is judged.
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