When Christian missionaries in Africa met Senegalese men who can have up to four wives by law, the missionaries tried to convince the men that their ways were "wrong" and that they should adopt the ways of the missionaries, which were "right." This illustrates __________.

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This scenario illustrates ethnocentrism, which is the belief in the inherent superiority of one's own cultural or ethnic group and the tendency to view other cultures from the perspective of one's own. The missionaries judged the Senegalese customs based on their own cultural norms.

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