Most domestic and international observers consider his regime to be one of the most corrupt, ethnocentric, oppressive and undemocratic states in the world.
Ethnocentric individuals judge other groups relative to their own ethnic group or culture, especially with concern for language, behavior, customs, and religion.
In this way, cross-cultural psychology together with international psychology aims to make psychology less ethnocentric in character than it has been in the past.
The fishing community, in these villages, is an ethnocentric community that does not broach interaction even with neighboring communities except for their trade.