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: The Brockhaus Enzyklopädie ( Conversations-Lexicon) of 1847 still has an ostensibly Eurocentric approach and claims about Europe that "its geographical situation and its cultural and political significance is clearly the most important of the five continents, over which it has gained a most influential government both in material and even more so in cultural aspects". European exceptionalism thus grew out of the Great Divergence of the Early Modern period, due to the combined effects of the Scientific Revolution, the Commercial Revolution, and the rise of colonial empires, the Industrial Revolution and a Second European colonization wave . European exceptionalism is widely reflected in popular genres of literature, especially literature for young adults (for example, Rudyard Kipling 's Kim) and adventure literature in general. Portrayal of European colonialism in such literature has been analysed in terms of Eurocentrism in retrospect, such as presenting idealised and often exaggeratedly masculine Western heroes, who conquered 'savage' peoples in the remaining 'dark spaces' of the globe. The European miracle, a term coined by Eric Jones in 1981, refers to this surprising rise of Europe during the Early Modern period. During the 15th to 18th centuries, a great divergence took place, comprising the European Renaissance, age of discovery, the formation of the colonial empires, the Age of Reason, and the associated leap forward in technology and the development of capitalism and early industrialisation. The result was that by the 19th century, European powers dominated world trade and world politics . Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in Lectures on the Philosophy of History, claimed that world history started in Asia but shifted to Greece and Italy, and then north of the Alps to France, Germany and England. According to Hegel, India and China are stationary countries which lack inner momentum. China replaced the real historically development with a fixed, stable scenario, which makes it the outsider of world history.