Eurocentric

adjective

Eu·ro·cen·tric ˌyu̇r-ə-ˈsen-trik

: centered on Europe or the Europeans

especially : reflecting a tendency to interpret the world in terms of European or Anglo-American values and experiences

Eurocentrism

ˌyu̇r-ə-ˈsen-ˌtri-zəm

noun

Eurocentrist

ˌyu̇r-ə-ˈsen-trist

noun

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At Yale, he was evidently steeped in the identity politics and postmodernism of the 1990s and wanted to both embrace and critique the Eurocentric art history he had been taught about. —

Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024 Beneath this content lies an implicit suggestion that our faces must be sculpted and painted in a very particular way in order to be uniformly attractive (usually based on Eurocentric beauty standards cloaked as a hyper-symmetrical science). —

Maria Santa Poggi, Allure, 4 Nov. 2024 How else is the community of wine diversifying culturally and geographically, beyond the historically limited Eurocentric view? —

Cathy Huyghe, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024 Recipes for Sweets and Treats Inspired by My Corner Store' Terroir, that term for a sense of place in wine and food, is often bandied about in rarefied, Eurocentric terms. —

Scott Hocker, theweek, 27 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for Eurocentric