Eurocentrism
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20 sectionsContents
- Terminology
- History
- European exceptionalism
- Anticolonialism
- Recent usage
- Debate and academic discourse
- Africa
- Colonial historiography
- Latin America
- Islamic world
- Orientalism
- Distortions of world maps and Eurocentrism
- See also
- Pro-Eurocentrism
- Anti-Eurocentrism
- Other centrisms
- Related topics
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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Eurocentrism (also Eurocentricity or Western-centrism) refers to viewing the West as the center of world events or superior to other cultures. The exact scope of Eurocentrism varies from the entire Western world to just the continent of Europe or even more narrowly, to Western Europe (especially during the Cold War). When the term is applied historically, it may be used in reference to the presentation of the European perspective on history as objective or absolute, or to an apologetic stance toward European colonialism and other forms of imperialism.