During her tour of a Latin American country, Susanne was surprised to find that almost everyone took a three-hour break in the middle of the day. She concluded that, compared with the United States, this country was not doing well economically because everyone was lazy, lacked motivation, and spent too much time sleeping. Susanne's conclusion is based on:

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Elliott Maynard

9 August, 03:31

During her tour of a Latin American country, Susanne was surprised to find that almost everyone took a three-hour break in the middle of the day. She concluded that, compared with the United States, this country was not doing well economically because everyone was lazy, lacked motivation, and spent too much time sleeping. Susanne's conclusion is based on:

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Frankie Young · Answer 1

Answer:ethnocentrism

Explanation: Ethnocentrism occurs when we use our own culture as a basic measure of judging other people's culture, and we feel that our own culture is superior and correct whilst other culture are inferior and incorrect somehow. We believe that the practices in our own culture are the only one's that are correct and natural any other practices from other culture that seem to differ from our are considered to be incorrect and not natural. Susan is using her own country to measure this country where she is as nothing compared to her own culture and she considers it worse because they do things differently.