Ethnocentrism
Ethnocentrism is defined as the tendency to judge the customs of others by the standards of one's own ethnographic present. In a nut shell, Ethnocentrism is "thinking that one's own group's way is superior from others" or "judging other groups as inferior to one's own".
When the Spaniards first reached the shores of the Philippines, natives were immediately branded as barbaric. Their need to convert the natives into Christians was a priority, (that and the fact that they wanted to spread Christianity itself). …
