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[inea]

It seems that in history and culture science Western culture is considered to be the centre of the world. All emphasis is put on the achievements of Western society. The start of this topic seems to spread this idea too.

http://www.knowledge...ll/page__st__25

The idea is that Europe was the known world. The history of Europe is important, if not the most important.

This results in a big influence of the ancient Greek philosophy and ideas about the way politics and the state should be organized. It results for instance in the opinion, that democraty is the best way to give influence to the people about the government of the state.

It can be discussed, that the history of about 5.000 years of continuing culture of China has its own influence and importancy too. And the same can be said about India, Asia, Japan, South-America and Africa. But the results of the societies in other parts of the world and other continents seem to be of less interest in Western societies and Western science. It seems that the benefits of other cultures are neglected.

It can be argued that a balanced view of the world needs to take in account the results of the cultures and the societies outside Europe and North-America too.

Edited by inea, 27 September 2010 - 02:06 PM.

[networker]

It depends on which culture somebody is from when writing about the history of the world. Somebody from China would probably place their culture at the center of things.
Somebody from a Latin American country would probably place Spain at the center of it all. It's all relevant as to who is writing it.

Of course one should be objective when doing this. If one was to pick a cultural
center from the 20th century it wouldn't be far fetched to pick WEstern culture
(i.e London and New York etc.)

inea, on 27 September 2010 - 02:00 PM, said:

It seems that in history and culture science Western culture is considered to be the centre of the world. All emphasis is put on the achievements of Western society. The start of this topic seems to spread this idea too.

http://www.knowledge...ll/page__st__25

The idea is that Europe was the known world. The history of Europe is important, if not the most important.

This results in a big influence of the ancient Greek philosophy and ideas about the way politics and the state should be organized. It results for instance in the opinion, that democraty is the best way to give influence to the people about the government of the state.

It can be discussed, that the history of about 5.000 years of continuing culture of China has its own influence and importancy too. And the same can be said about India, Asia, Japan, South-America and Africa. But the results of the societies in other parts of the world and other continents seem to be of less interest in Western societies and Western science. It seems that the benefits of other cultures are neglected.

It can be argued that a balanced view of the world needs to take in account the results of the cultures and the societies outside Europe and North-America too.