What is “ethnocentrism”? Ethnocentrism is the natural tendency to understand other cultures by comparing it to their own, your culture is us, and theirs them. By recognizing our natural tendencies towards bias rather than outright ignoring them is the preferred approach when interpreting scripture. Ethnocentrism isn’t just on a cultural level, it exists also on an ideological level as well, many of the early Church’s teachings had elements of Aristotelian and Platonic philosophy in their dogmatics. Others have gone as far as to apply modern political and economic ideologies to scripture, this ended up as modern liberation theology and the so-called “Radical Christianity,” a postmodern critical theory of Christianity.
The Orthodox Church with its many national patriarchates does interpret scripture through the language that is spoken in said patriarchate yet they are limited by the very medium which the information is conveyed. The Church has made it clear that phyletism, ethnic tribalism, is heresy after the Bulgarian Patriarchate opened a church in Constantinople which was only open to Bulgarians. Because of the natural tendency to be ethnocentric, I find that individual interpretation should be done with care, I would say that using academic biblical standards is the most fool-proof method against interpretations which might go too far.