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  • noun Alternative capitalization of Eurocentrism

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun belief in the preeminence of Europe and the Europeans

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Examples

  • But they will have to decide if they want to take on the real problem, which would involve risking themselves to charges of 'eurocentrism', 'islamophobia', 'racism', and my personal favorite … 'fascism'.

    Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines 2009

  • But they will have to decide if they want to take on the real problem, which would involve risking themselves to charges of 'eurocentrism', 'islamophobia', 'racism', and my personal favorite … 'fascism'.

    Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines 2009

  • This was a controversial notion then and is even more so in our post - "9/11" world, when eurocentrism and "orientalism" have become academic bugbears.

    A Battle of Long-Running Interest Paul Cartledge 2010

  • I agree with your point of view that even some progressive scholar in Europe are not free from eurocentrism.

    Marx and the Taipings Daniel Little 2009

  • The reader might justifiably accuse me of eurocentrism in my emphasis, so far, on European developments — except for one thing: It was the Europeans — not the Chinese or Aztecs or Zulu — who forcibly imposed their culture and beliefs on people throughout the world.

    'Shall We Dance?' Ehrenreich, Barbara 2007

  • If anything this should prove his eurocentrism and blast his racial categories altogether.

    Jared Diamond on “The Japanese Race” 2005

  • If anything this should prove his eurocentrism and blast his racial categories altogether.

    井の中の蛙 » Jared Diamond on “The Japanese Race” » Print 2005

  • If anything this should prove his eurocentrism and blast his racial categories altogether.

    Jared Diamond on “The Japanese Race” 2005

  • If anything this should prove his eurocentrism and blast his racial categories altogether.

    Nostalgia and Representations of Asia in Japan 2005

  • Lord Patten's role could be to take the BBC into Europe The Observer, Sunday 27 February 2011 Chris Patten needs to bring his eurocentrism to the BBC.

    The Guardian World News Chris Patten 2011

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