Eurocentrism is criticized in many academic fields, such as International Relations, History, and other social science fields. Over the last decades, numerous scholars demonstrated relationships between inequalities Eurocentric approaches towards regional studies. Many whose origins are from Middle East have cited postcolonial literature, Said’s criticism of Orientalism, examples dominant Euro-...

Based on findings from an empirical study young people’s perceptions of the inbalanced global distribution cultural World Heritage sites, various aspects are discussed in order to deconstruct Eurocentrism educational programmes. In particular, postcolonial perspectives and importance decolonising will be addressed.

In her article "National Literatures as Intimate Expression and the Problem of Teaching World Literatures" Kette Thomas analyzes the fundamental tension embedded in the discourse on teaching world literatures. Thomas focuses on models which contextualize the problem around the subject of allegiance either to the reader or the author rather than the commonly limited geographical, national, and p...

Within the emerging field of cultural neuroscience (CN) one branch of research focuses on the neural underpinnings of "individualistic/Western" vs. "collectivistic/Eastern" self-views. These studies uncritically adopt essentialist assumptions from classic cross-cultural research, mainly following the tradition of Markus and Kitayama (1991), into the domain of functional neuroimaging. In this pe...