Some Americans look at cultures where families sleep together in a single family bed and proclaim,"That is so wrong;they are spoiling their children." This is an example of:

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Ethnocentrism is the belief that one's own cultural group is superior to others, and leads to the judgment of other cultures based on one's own cultural standards. In this example, the Americans are using their own cultural norms of separate sleeping spaces for children and adults to judge the cultural practice of sleeping together in a single family bed. They are assuming that their way is the only correct way, which demonstrates ethnocentrism.

Some Americans Look at Cultures Where Families Sleep Together in a Single