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I've never met someone who was actively opposed to ethnocentrism who didn't have major personal issues with their family and their family religion. In fact I think you could boil down the hatred of nationalism and religion at its core to people who either rejected or felt in some way rejected from those things. There is, of course, valid criticism of these institutions, which could be addressed and may even be the cause for this rejection, but it does not stem first and foremost from that. And in the broadest sense i honestly believe that you can apply this to whole groups of people, the best example of which are the ashkenazi and sephardic jews. Being nomads and lacking a proper national homeland, they have a hatred for people that DO uphold strict ethnocentrism within their own homelands because for them it meant rejection from that land. Because of their mixed nature and their strange religion they were never able to assimilate into european states throughout history, and they resent europeans for that rejection to this day.
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