On Cultural Bondage: From Eurocentrism to Americocentrism

Ali A. Mazrui

Chapter Chapter Eight in The Challenge of Eurocentrism: Global Perspectives, Policy, and Prospects, 2009, pp 147-170 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract A Yugoslav from Montenegro once taught an African from Mombasa, Kenya, at Oxford University. Among the lessons which the professor from Montenegro taught the young African was a simple proposition: THE SINS OF THE POWERFUL ACQUIRE SOME OF THE PRESTIGE OF POWER.

Keywords: Cultural Relativism; Muslim Country; Muslim World; Television Series; Historical Relativism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230620896_9

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