Title: Eurocentrism - Wikipedia
Headings: Eurocentrism
Eurocentrism
Contents
Terminology
History
European exceptionalism
Anticolonialism
Debate since 1990s
Race and politics in the United States
Latin America
Effect on beauty standards in Brazil
Islamic world
Orientalism
In the beauty industry
Clark Doll Experiment
Mexican Doll Experiment
Beauty Advertisements
Skin Lightening
South Korea
See also
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links

Content: Contents
1 Terminology
2 History
2.1 European exceptionalism
2.2 Anticolonialism
2.3 Debate since 1990s
2.4 Race and politics in the United States
3 Latin America
3.1 Effect on beauty standards in Brazil
4 Islamic world
4.1 Orientalism
5 In the beauty industry
5.1 Clark Doll Experiment
5.2 Mexican Doll Experiment
5.3 Beauty Advertisements
5.4 Skin Lightening
5.5 South Korea
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Terminology
Eurocentrism as the term for an ideology was coined by Samir Amin in the 1970s
The adjective Eurocentric, or Europe-centric, has been in use in various contexts since at least the 1920s. The term was popularised (in French as européocentrique) in the context of decolonization and internationalism in the mid-20th century. English usage of Eurocentric as an ideological term in identity politics was current by the mid-1980s. The abstract noun Eurocentrism (French eurocentrisme, earlier europocentrisme) as the term for an ideology was coined in the 1970s by the Egyptian Marxian economist Samir Amin, then director of the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Amin used the term in the context of a global, core-periphery or dependency model of capitalist development. English usage of Eurocentrism is recorded by 1979. The coinage of Western-centrism is younger, attested in the late 1990s, and specific to English. History
European exceptionalism
Further information: Great Divergence, The European Miracle, Age of Discovery, Colonialism, Progressivism, and Western world
During the European colonial era, encyclopedias often sought to give a rationale for the predominance of European rule during the colonial period by referring to a special position taken by Europe compared to the other continents. Thus, Johann Heinrich Zedler, in 1741, wrote that "even though Europe is the smallest of the world's four continents, it has for various reasons a position that places it before all others.... Its inhabitants have excellent customs, they are courteous and erudite in both sciences and crafts".