Eurocentrism and the Other

The other is a term that is historically seen as deviant, unnatural and strange as it exists outside the boundaries of what is considered 'normal'. But the dialectal relationship between discursive strategies and the discourses are historical in which they can change. This then leads into the sense of Eurocentrism as they both go hand in hand together, these two terms.

The term Eurocentrism is an approach that takes European/western values, judgements, beliefs and cultures as normal, natural and ideal. It tends to make European/western values central and dismisses others to the periphery. It is a form of vestigial thinking which permeates and structures many contemporary practices and representations. Eurocentrism is about power rather than the facts about reality, which make things true, which then produces knowledge. The question of whether a discourse is true or false is less important than whether it is effective in practice. Consequently, eurocentrism is a rationale for colonialism and imperialism as it is of discursive construction. Eurocentrism is a term that is trajectory as inherent progress toward democratic institutions an historical amnesia. It does however, minimise the west oppressive practices such as the colonialism and slave-trading. But these are fundamental catalysts for the west disproportionate power.