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Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer's model of the world.

~ J.m. Blaut

J.m. Blaut Colonialism Eurocentrism History Imperialism Perspective World History

Technology has become the West’s main prop to its claims of inherent superiority over the non-West, and the reason why the non-West should adopt Western culture. If advanced technology is particular to Western culture, then it is only by Westernizing that the non-West can obtain it. This argument collapses if Western technology can be adopted in isolation from the broader culture, or if other cultures can generate significant technology independently.

~ Peter A. Lorge

Peter A. Lorge Asia Eurocentrism Europe Historiography History Technology

China failed to maintain its technological lead, and a similar failure throughout Asia to take advantage of the early exposure to that head start transformed precocity into a false dawn. Perversely, Asian improvements and adaptations of current (twentieth- to twenty-first-century) Western-developed technology are taken as further signs of lack of creativity.

~ Peter A. Lorge

Peter A. Lorge Asia China Eurocentrism Europe Historiography History Technology

It is a truism, easily forgotten, that the West, in its modern phase, has not stood still. Also easily forgotten is the fact that the West is a relative concept only. Without an East or a non-West to compare it with, it would quite simply not exist; there would be no word for it in our vocabulary. If the concept of the West did not exist, of course, the spatial variations within the geographical area now subsumed under the West would loom larger in our minds. The difference between France and America might seem just as great as those between China and the West.

~ Paul A. Cohen

Paul A. Cohen Asia China Eurocentrism Europe Historiography History The West

Far from being Eurocentric, my analysis exoticizes Europe. Europe is historically aberrant. In some ways this was a historical accident, not entirely Europe's fault. But, in any case, it is nothing about which Europe should boast. Perhaps Europe and the world will one day be cured of this terrible malady with which Europe (and through Europe the world) has been afflicted.

~ Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Wallerstein Anticapitalism Capitalism Eurocentrism Europe World
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