euro-centric

Euro-centric

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

  • anti-universalist in nature, it presents itself as a universalist phenomenon and advocates for the imitation of a Western model based on “Western values” – individuality, human rights, equality, democracy, free markets, secularism, and social justice – as a cure to all kinds of problems, no matter how different various societies are socially, culturally, and historically.

source: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-1-4020-9160-5_25

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