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Selfishness vs Ethnocentrism - What's the difference?

selfishness | ethnocentrism |

As nouns the difference between selfishness and ethnocentrism

is that selfishness is the quality of being selfish, the condition of putting one's own interests before those of others while ethnocentrism is the tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.

selfishness

English

Noun

(wikipedia selfishness)
  • the quality of being selfish, the condition of putting one's own interests before those of others
  • Antonyms

    * selflessness

    ethnocentrism

    Noun

    (-)
  • The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.