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Eurocentrism is a term coined in the 1980s, referring to the notion of European exceptionalism, a worldview centred on Western civilisation, as it had developed during the height of the European colonial empires since the Early Modern period. Eurocentrism is the practise of viewing the world from a European perspective and with an implied belief, either consciously or subconsciously, in the preeminence of European culture. The term ''Eurocentrism'' itself dates to the late 1980s and became prevalent in the discourse during the 1990s, for instance in the context of decolonisation. ==Terminology== The term ''Eurocentrism'' (French ''eurocentrisme'') was coined in 1988, by Samir Amin, a French-educated Marxian economist from Egypt, director of the '' Institut Africain de Développement Économique et de Planification'' from 1980. The earlier adjective ''Europe-centric'' came into use in the early 20th century. The term appears in precisely this form in the writings of the right-wing German writer Karl Haushofer during the 1920s. For instance, in Haushofer's 'Geo-Politics of the Pacific Space' (''Geopolitik des pazifischen Ozeans''), Haushofer contrasts this Pacific space in terms of global politics to the 'European' and 'Europe-centric' (''europa-zentrisch'')(pp. 11–23, 110-113, ''passim''). The term ''Europocentrism'' appears in the 1970s, through the Marxist writings of Samir Amin as part of a global, core-periphery or dependency model of capitalist development. 'Eurocentrism' appears only by 1988, in the titles of Amin books as the definition of an ideology. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eurocentrism」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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