all you wordsmiths, I need a word

[left is right]

it will end in centric and the definition of this word is: reflecting a tendency to interpret the world in terms of American values and experiences. I have entered several different combinations of America and centric and got nothing. It's for a term paper, so it has to be plausible

[NMDemDist2]

1. Americentric has lots of google hits

won't that work?

[leftyclimber]

3. Google Scholar shows 107 hits for Americentric.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Americentric&hl=en&lr=

Hopefully something there's in line with your paper, literature-wise.

[left is right]

4. that was one of the combinations I tried in the dictionary

I never thought about Google. Doh!

[YDogg]

2. Is ...

"Bushandcheneyarewarmongersandillbedamnedsoisthatlittlegruntmccaincentric" too long?

:shrug:

[left is right]

5. although it is a great word and it speaks volumes

I am afraid I won't have enough ink to print the essay with that in it.

[Inchworm]

6. Yankcentric

oops, nm. That is a position in a one way orgy.

:yoiks:

[AteAlien]

7. nadacentric

good luck, and don't take me seriously!

[mikita]

8. Amerigocentric ?

:shrug:

[DS1]

9. Why limit yourself to ending in centric?

doesn't make senstric

[laconicsax]

10. Egocentric perhaps?

[havocmom]

12. Yep. We're #1!!!!11!! And so damned busy chanting that, we have slipped

to much lower in most things.

Egocentric r us

[MichiganVote]

11. ethnocentric or eccentric depending on your point of view

[rug]

13. Vexillocentric.

[Orsino]

14. Burgercentric. n/t