Centering on or emphasizing Europe and European perspectives, often with an implication of viewing Europe as the primary focus or standard against which others are measured.
From 'Euro-' (Europe) + 'pocentric' (from 'polis,' city, but blended to mean world-centered); variant of eurocentric with different morphological construction.
Europocentric scholarship literally shaped how we understand human history—for centuries, only European advances were called 'innovations,' while identical technologies elsewhere were called 'primitive,' revealing how language itself encodes cultural bias.
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