Thiaba is a woman from a rural area of East Africa. When she visited America and viewed women "baking their heads in small ovens," she thought that Americans were barbaric. She had never seen a woman sit under a hair dryer in her own country, so she used her own culture to judge American culture. Thiaba was practicing:

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Thiaba was practicing ethnocentrism, which is the act of judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one's own culture. In this case, she judged the American practice of using hair dryers as barbaric based on her own cultural norms and experiences.

Thiaba Is a Woman from a Rural Area of East