Heh, ethnocentrism, a concept introduced to first year university students. I actually learned the term in Sociology my first year in college.  

Yes I am well aware of those who helped the Jews. There were Catholics who did so also. My comment was directed at the pogroms of 1881 in Russia. And again, I think you are reading into my comments. I'm against totalitarianism and cultural hegemony of any ilk. And while there is a sense of justice with the attack on Tenochtitlan (the inhabitants of the tributary states would have agreed) in light of their cultural hegemony, two wrongs do not make a right. The Spanish had no right is wiping out their culture. The other point I want to make is that there is good and bad in all cultures.

There was a Russian Orthodox Priest in Paris during WWII who openly helped the Jew's to escape.  When the Nazis arrested him, they asked"Why do you hep, the Jews?"  The Priest fingered his crucifix and reply-ed," Do you know this Jew?"  Similarly, In Greece during Nazi occupation many Jewish women and children found refuge on Mt. Athos.  MT. Athos is a monastic republic which woman have been forbidden for centuries, but the Holy Fathers made exception to save their lives.  The comment on human sacrifice was actually a comment on ethnocentrism.  Which is an anthropology term for judging other cultures by our own values. On one hand you talk of tolerance and acceptance, but could you be tolerant of a aggressive empire, that started wars to get captives to sacrifice ,because a mistaken belief that the sun would not rise if you didn't.  Rather reminds me of a anthropology professor I had.  She would lecture on the evils of ethnocentrism and in the same breath attack those cultures like the muslims who enslaved women and didn't agree with her feminist perspective.