Ethnic supremacism – tribal supremacism, national supremacism, state supremacism, religious supremacism, and racial supremacism tends to be hardwired into human beings. That does not mean we are stuck with it, but it means we might have to work to not drift into that natural mode thinking.
The reason I say racial supremacism and all other forms of supremacism which are all synonymous with the racial kind is normal and natural in human beings is because we are all ethnocentric. Even hardcore liberal college professors will tell you that all human ethnic groups are ethnocentric (I know my professor told me this; not sure about yours). Ethnocentrism means “my group is better” or something along those lines. “My group comes first, I like my group better, I prefer my group,” etc. It is a self-centered mode of thinking that is probably akin to egotism and narcissism in the individual psyche. So ethnocentrism, tribal supremacism, national supremacism, state supremacism, religious supremacism, and racial supremacism are all simply the corollary of egotism and narcissism in the individual. Whereas the individual with his ego thinks he is better or best, a group of individuals thinking they are better or best are writing their collective egos and narcissisms upon the group structure and ladling it onto the group. Hence ethnocentrism can be thought of as group egotism or group narcissism. Or narcissism is micro-egotism and ethnocentrism is macro-egotism.
