Eurocentricity
Europe-focused world view
Eurocentricity is the practice of viewing the world from a European perspective, often prioritizing European values, history, and culture over others.
Unfair inclination or prejudice
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- imperialismExtending dominion over others
- orientalismInterest in Eastern aesthetics
- otheringViewing as fundamentally different
hegemony · ethnocentrism · decolonization · postcolonialism · marginalization · exclusion · Westernization · universalism
Study of history-writing
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
- canonAccepted authoritative works
- pedagogyArt of instruction
- scholarshipEducational funding or erudition
epistemology · methodology · Said · subaltern · decolonizing · worldview · framework · narrative
Liberal democratic sphere
- AmericaWestern superpower nation
- peripheryBoundary or outer region
- metropoleImperial colonial hub
- colonyDependent territorial settlement
developing · underdeveloped · non-Western · African · Asian · Latin-American · indigenous · Southern
Of Euro-American civilization
- primitivismIdealization of pre-modern life
- exoticismAllure of the unfamiliar
- classicalOf ancient Greece/Rome
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
Enlightenment · modernism · civilization · progress · rationality · secularism · individualism · universality
bias
Unfair inclination or prejudice
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- imperialismExtending dominion over others
- orientalismInterest in Eastern aesthetics
othering · hegemony · ethnocentrism · decolonization · postcolonialism · marginalization · exclusion · Westernization · universalism · supremacy
historiography
Study of history-writing
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
- canonAccepted authoritative works
- pedagogyArt of instruction
scholarship · epistemology · methodology · Said · subaltern · decolonizing · worldview · framework · narrative · perspective
West
Liberal democratic sphere
colony · developing · underdeveloped · non-Western · African · Asian · Latin-American · indigenous · Southern · subaltern
Western
Of Euro-American civilization
- primitivismIdealization of pre-modern life
- exoticismAllure of the unfamiliar
- classicalOf ancient Greece/Rome
Renaissance · Enlightenment · modernism · civilization · progress · rationality · secularism · individualism · universality · aesthetics
Eurocentricityglobal perspective
Awareness spanning all countries
multiculturalism · cosmopolitanism · universalism · cultural relativism · decolonization
Europe, European, Europeanism, Europeanize, Europeanization, Eurocentric, Eurocentrism, center, centre