Eurocentric
Americanadjective
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centered on Europe and Europeans.
They have offered insightful but nonetheless Eurocentric analyses of European travelers, losing sight of the larger global context of travel.
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considering Europe and Europeans as focal to world culture, history, economics, etc., or viewing everything through the lens of European values, attitudes, and interests.
The style represented a celebration of Black beauty and a repudiation of Eurocentric beauty standards.
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The Nobel Prize in literature has always been highly Eurocentric, so it is odd that the Netherlands has never fielded a recipient.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Eurocentric and Western beauty standards, further reinforced by 90s diet culture, also promoted skinny as the new sexy.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
With the passage of centuries, the Eurocentric accounts that depicted Cortés as a heroic “white savior” and Moctezuma as a cowardly heathen have been eclipsed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025
Guèye himself defended the memo as part of a broader mission to "restore African dignity and identity", particularly in the arts sector, which he believes has been overly influenced by Eurocentric beauty standards.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2025
Second, doesn’t addressing Yali’s question automatically involve a Eurocentric approach to history, a glorification of western Europeans, and an obsession with the prominence of western Europe and Europeanized America in the modern world?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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