Question

When we project our own assumptions about persons from a different culture, we?

Answer 1

We are trying to decrease our own anxiety or ambiguity about them

This kind of behavior is called “Ethnocentrism”. It is judging another culture exclusively by the qualities and guidelines of one's own way of life. Ethnocentric people judge different groups in respect to their own ethnic gathering or culture, particularly with concern for dialect, conduct, traditions, and religion.