This occurs when different groups are mentioned in the cards or come up in discussion, especially when representatives of these groups are not found in the mix of players. They will frequently claim that doing this is labeling or stereotyping others. Some will insist that the game itself stereotypes others by including culture specific information on the cards. Ethnocentric behaviors do not necessarily imply deep bias and prejudice. They are typical of where most people start.
Most people can be ethnocentric and yet open to learning and to new experiences and relationships.
One falls in love with or unqualifiedly embraces, praises, or imitates what one feels to be the superiority of another culture or group. Everything the others do is right and beautiful and everything about the individual's own culture is bad. People who attempt to assimilate, become totally a part of the other culture. Such cultural competence involves further stages of development. We start to realize that other people's culture does for them what our own culture does for us.