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单词 Eurocentric
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Definition of Eurocentric in English:

Eurocentric

adjective jʊərəʊˈsɛntrɪk
  • Focusing on European culture or history to the exclusion of a wider view of the world; implicitly regarding European culture as pre-eminent.

    the classical, Eurocentric view of how mathematics developed
    Example sentencesExamples
    • To paraphrase the good brother, the ban was a deliberate attempt to suppress African culture and impose their Eurocentric Christianity.
    • Instead, the authors provide a Eurocentric view of pollution and its causes.
    • The result was a Eurocentric view of world history in which Africans had no part.
    • The last have been favored in histories of world Jewry, and for too long those histories have been skewed by their Eurocentric view.
    • Among some sectors of society, ‘Aussie’ is regarded as Eurocentric and anachronistic in a nation officially committed to ethnic and racial inclusiveness.
    • Proponents of the former position were cast as conservative upholders of Enlightenment verities clinging to modernism as the last bastion of a Eurocentric culture.
    • This is because certain towns have simply meaningless names connected to Eurocentric history while other names represent vicious corruption of indigenous names which need to be corrected.
    • Conventional historians will find the unashamedly Eurocentric view disturbing, and will judge the author's use of evidence rather cavalier.
    • The Aryan Invasion theory propounded by western scholars gives a Eurocentric history of civilization, based on racial parameters.
    • Rather, they map onto each other and reinforce a politically conservative, Eurocentric view of culture.
    • History at school had been taught from a Eurocentric perspective, focusing on colonisation or slavery in Africa.
    • Australia was part of the British Empire and at school I was taught a fairly Britain-centric and Eurocentric view of the world.
    • The main focus may have been Eurocentric, but there was a constant consideration of non-European cultures, in particular India and China.
    • A Eurocentric nationalist view of history would posit ‘One World, Many Tribes’ as the oldest and least mature social formation.
    • When I got to Union in New York, the culture was elitist, Eurocentric, competitive and individualistic.
    • So the point is that criminologists should be committed in their research to understanding the world marginalized by Eurocentric culture.
    • In more than one instance their Eurocentric view eclipsed their respect, and they overlaid their names on ancient rock art and structures.
    • This Eurocentric view ignored the many other right-to-left scripts: until about ad 1500 there were about as many right-to-left scripts as left-to-right ones.
    • Most of these so called healthy weight indicators do not take many things into account and are biased towards a Eurocentric view of size and beauty.
    • This book broke with the Eurocentric conceptions of African history and immediately the book became one of the most widely-read and influential books on Africa and the third world in general.

Derivatives

  • Eurocentricity

  • noun
    • It is unsurprising, considering the US' historical links with Europe and the ancestral ties of the majority of its citizens to Europe, that the US' foreign policy tends to display a distinct Eurocentricity.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There is a lot to be done in South Africa for the poor land-dispossessed people of this country, rather than for this diversionary game of homosexuals whose Eurocentricity has now completely gone eccentric.
      • Their construction of a nationalist philosophical system that eventually served as an apologia for Japan's aggression can be traced to such an experience of Eurocentricity.
      • In this climate of post-Cold War oppression and complacence, U.S. hegemony and Western Eurocentricity have deepened.
      • Blatter has long sought to end the Eurocentricity of world soccer.
  • Eurocentrism

  • noun ˌjʊərəʊˈsɛntrɪz(ə)m
    • Every American has a right to patriotism and his opinion, but he has perpetuated the idea that keeps the Western world in a regime of arrogance, power, Eurocentrism, and inevitable conflict with those who pull its cargo.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Regardless of whether one opposed Eurocentrism or secular humanism, there appeared to be widespread agreement that the civic mission of public schools was a form of oppression.
      • The charge of Eurocentrism is often made on the basis of remarks made by Marx in articles that he wrote in the early 1850s about the role of British imperialism in India.
      • And the Eurocentrism has a flip side, a soft-headed multiculturalism in which movements in other parts of the world are regarded as hopelessly and wonderfully exotic and not to be judged or analyzed.
      • Americans who are apt to argue that U.S. foreign policy needs constant infusions of legitimacy from the approbation of European governments are also apt to deplore, in the domestic culture wars, Eurocentrism in academic curricula.

Rhymes

androcentric, centric, concentric, eccentric, egocentric, ethnocentric, geocentric, phallocentric, theocentric
 
 

Definition of Eurocentric in US English:

Eurocentric

adjective
  • Focusing on European culture or history to the exclusion of a wider view of the world; implicitly regarding European culture as preeminent.

    the classical, Eurocentric view of how mathematics developed
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Among some sectors of society, ‘Aussie’ is regarded as Eurocentric and anachronistic in a nation officially committed to ethnic and racial inclusiveness.
    • A Eurocentric nationalist view of history would posit ‘One World, Many Tribes’ as the oldest and least mature social formation.
    • The result was a Eurocentric view of world history in which Africans had no part.
    • The last have been favored in histories of world Jewry, and for too long those histories have been skewed by their Eurocentric view.
    • So the point is that criminologists should be committed in their research to understanding the world marginalized by Eurocentric culture.
    • The Aryan Invasion theory propounded by western scholars gives a Eurocentric history of civilization, based on racial parameters.
    • The main focus may have been Eurocentric, but there was a constant consideration of non-European cultures, in particular India and China.
    • This is because certain towns have simply meaningless names connected to Eurocentric history while other names represent vicious corruption of indigenous names which need to be corrected.
    • Proponents of the former position were cast as conservative upholders of Enlightenment verities clinging to modernism as the last bastion of a Eurocentric culture.
    • History at school had been taught from a Eurocentric perspective, focusing on colonisation or slavery in Africa.
    • Rather, they map onto each other and reinforce a politically conservative, Eurocentric view of culture.
    • Conventional historians will find the unashamedly Eurocentric view disturbing, and will judge the author's use of evidence rather cavalier.
    • To paraphrase the good brother, the ban was a deliberate attempt to suppress African culture and impose their Eurocentric Christianity.
    • This book broke with the Eurocentric conceptions of African history and immediately the book became one of the most widely-read and influential books on Africa and the third world in general.
    • Australia was part of the British Empire and at school I was taught a fairly Britain-centric and Eurocentric view of the world.
    • This Eurocentric view ignored the many other right-to-left scripts: until about ad 1500 there were about as many right-to-left scripts as left-to-right ones.
    • Most of these so called healthy weight indicators do not take many things into account and are biased towards a Eurocentric view of size and beauty.
    • Instead, the authors provide a Eurocentric view of pollution and its causes.
    • When I got to Union in New York, the culture was elitist, Eurocentric, competitive and individualistic.
    • In more than one instance their Eurocentric view eclipsed their respect, and they overlaid their names on ancient rock art and structures.
 
 
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