The study aims at exploring ethnocentrism issue happened by the main character in Betty Mahmoody novel entitled Not Without My Daughter and its effect in interacting with Iranians. The novel, set in Iran, is chosen because it has interesting and complex conflicts related to ethnocentrism. Starting from how Betty has been being an ethnocentric person, and how it influences her to interact with her husband’s family and Iranian there.

The study uses qualitative method where the analysis just focused on the text of the novel as the main data source. The analysis itself used the theory of expression of ethnocentrism by Bizumic and Duckitt. Meanwhile, the theory of Gudyskunt 2003; Harris&Jonson 2007; Jandt 2004 is used to analyze the effect of ethnocentrism. Some steps are conducted to collect the data, begin with reading the novel, identifying, classifying, and reducing the data. As the result, the novel showed things that indicate behavior of expressing ethnocentric person and the effect of that issue to Betty’s interactions with Iranians.

The ultimate goal of the study are to report if the main character in Not Without My Daughter novel depicted her ethnocentric behavior to other ethnic group that is Iranian. She would prefer her own group and the members to Iranian, she behaved as superior and felt to keep her purity from Iranian. It also reports if the main character also depicted some effects of ethnocentrism such as saw the good thing at American than Iranian, differentiated American and Iranian, rejected knowledge of Iranians’ culture, and so forth.

Keywords: Iranian, American, Ethnic Group, Ethnocentrism, Not Without My Daughter