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Eurocentric
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Eurocentric
chiefly concerned with or concentrating on Europe and European culture


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Would Asians be surprised to know that to go from some African countries to another, you have to go via Europe--that is the level of Eurocentricity.
If this seems out of step with the geographical and economic reality of Sydney, it nevertheless speaks to the latent Eurocentricity and unreflexive romanticism of Australia's aspirational inner-urban culture.
Only this viewpoint, Mignolo has claimed, can develop a cosmopolitanism that will not get caught--willingly or unwillingly--in the trap of perpetual Eurocentricity.
 
 
 
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