Tuesday, February 18, 2020

eurocentrism and atlantic revolutions

Eurocentrism is a biased view of western civilization that is favored over non-western civilization. We definitely have this sort of centrism in our world today due to the famous narcissistic president, Donald Trump. Although things can get controversial in politics, America is seen as "the best country on Earth." Yes, America is big and advanced in technology and firearms, military, and war crimes but that does not mean that it is essentially great. One may ask, what/who is a terrorist? Is it the Muslims? is it the Americans? is it the undocumented immigrants? The answers are endless but as Americans, they don't see themselves as terrorists. Moving forward, the Atlantic revolution is the rebellion of lower-classified people on the higher hierarchy. In the French Revolution, the Church and the Aristocats lied to civilians about the equality and freedom that only benefited themselves. A revolution began insisting that civilians were their own government instead of the Church and the Aristocats. This definitely can compare to today where people assemble protests for things they believe in. A huge one that happened a few years ago is the famous Ferguson Unrest where people protested and rioted over the murder of Michael Brown by the police officer Darren Wilson. A protest literally just happened yesterday at the Ohio University of Kaitlyn Bennet where she was unwelcome from students due to her protest of carrying arms. Although I have lots to say about these concepts, I would rather talk about the important concept in this history lesson: eurocentrism. It is this ideology that something is better than the other, in this case, "Americas is better than any other country in the world," stated by Americans.

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