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- noun
practice of viewing the world from aEuropean perspective, with an impliedbelief , either consciously or subconsciously, in thepreeminence of Europeanculture
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Examples
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In 1978, when I first read Crummell and Delany and Bishop Turner in preparing to teach a course on the origins of Pan-Africanism, I was as surprised as my Yale students by the resolutely racial character of this nineteenth-century nationalism and by what we would now call the Eurocentrism of its cultural understanding.
'The Multiculturalist Misunderstanding' Kilson, Martin 1998
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If one doesn't know that someone is espousing, let's say, "Eurocentrism," and when realizing it, says it and then the discussion ends, then that's it.
Discarding the Post-Colonial Other: A Vindication of Plain Speaking Peter Rozovsky 2010
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In other words, the much-discussed resentment of "Eurocentrism" doesn't frequently extend to that most European of all ailments-anti-Semitism.
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Close connection: There is, you see, a close connection between today's curriculum wars and the lengthening lists of impermissible thoughts, between the assault on "Eurocentrism" and the assault on free speech.
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"Eurocentrism" from the curricula of our schools and universities.
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Contrary to the absurd claims about "Eurocentrism," Europeans are traditionally the least ethnocentric people on the planet, which is why we invented sciences such as archaeology because only we possessed the scholarly objectivity to do so.
unknown title 2009
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Europe and "Eurocentrism" were already passé among the policy jet set in the 1960s; remarkably, they have yet to recover.
Spero News 2009
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To those who decry any resulting "Eurocentrism" in the book, Mr. Ferguson has a simple and effective response.
The Birth of the Modern World Brendan Simms 2011
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Obama, an indifferent student and doper at the time, has given us no evidence of an interest in anything besides “neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy.”
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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With his new friends, Obama discussed “neocolonialism, Franz sic Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy” and flaunted his alienation.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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