Conventional Eurocentrism Opposed: Destiny Disrupted

Australopithecus is believed to have lived about 4 million to a million years ago. Since then, the world history of mankind was a thorough and daunting task. With this in mind, world historians try to capture the most important events for modern human development. In fact, Tamim Ansary says: "The history of the world is not a chronological list of things that happened - a series of the most important events chosen to reveal the arc of the story - it is crooked guilty." Some people restrict We adopted the European way to do, but in response to this idea, Tamim Ansary's Destiny D

"The success of European capitalism in Europe is the reason for doing colonial expansion in various parts of the world, against the eurocentricism, which means that colonialism began in Europe, A euro-centralist view on capitalism, even if capitalism does not develop in Europe, a powerful country still believes to colonize other parts of the world The birth of colonialism is It is the fate of human civilization, an unavoidable consequence of the natural features of human society, and in the 17th century it is very dense

In the essay on the history and modern Eurocentricism that appeared since the 1990s, Eurocentricism is mainly civilization / barbarism or advanced / recession, core / limiting dualism, "social progress is inevitable "It suggests. A remnant of the evolutionary program, "Estimation based on Western self-advantage as reference for analysis" (640). Eurocentricism and its duality in non-European countries, culture and people are often criticized in the political discourse of the 1990s and the 21st century, in particular political justice, the racial and positive behavior of the United States . Large background In the 1990s, there is a tendency to criticize various geographical terms centered on Europe, such as European and Asian traditions such as Europe and Asia, or the Middle East.

The criticism of Eurocentricism expressed in the context of development aid tends to focus on the meaning and location of the reason. It interferes with the opposition between rational, scientific self and irrational others. It raised doubt on the image of others who were behind, and their behavior and resistance to development were unreasonable traditional ideas. When a development worker concludes, the Tanzanians' choice is reasonable, even though the development workers do not consider these options to be reasonable. Even if you learn other methods, there are reasons for farmers to choose traditional methods, we insist that this will provide higher incomes, higher living standards, etc. Development workers should ask his question / she said 'Why do farmers make this choice? "Do not ask me" "Why do not they do what I told them?" "!" Ask why "are they doing this?" '(Aisei> December 1997)