When Japanese cars first became popular in the United States, some drivers of domestic cars placed bumper stickers on their vehicles that stated "Hungry? Eat your foreign car." These stickers encouraged people to support local workers and keep an American advantage in the balance of trade between Japan and the United States. The attitude expressed by the stickers is best described as ________.
A) national inertia
B) lexicographic determinism
C) stereotyping
D) ethnocentrism

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The attitude expressed by the bumper stickers is an example of ethnocentrism, which is the belief that one's own culture or nation is superior to all others. The bumper stickers are suggesting that buying and supporting Japanese cars is unpatriotic and harmful to the American economy. This belief is driven by the assumption that American products are inherently better and that foreign products are inferior.

When Japanese Cars First Became Popular in the United States