ANTHRO 41A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Great Divergence, Eurocentrism, Rationality
26 Jan 2017
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European miracle myth: the fact that there is an internal/innate quality that is responsible for the advanced nature of europe. (europens got ahead from other (cid:272)i(cid:448)ilizatio(cid:374)s (cid:1005)94(cid:1006) (cid:449)as the separatio(cid:374) of (cid:449)orlds) Eurocentric diffusion: everything good came from europe and the way that the rest of the (cid:449)orld ad(cid:448)a(cid:374)(cid:272)ed (cid:449)as fro(cid:373) europe"s spread of te(cid:272)h(cid:374)ology, religio(cid:374), s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272) research, culture, etc. Blaut colonizer"s model of the world chapter 2: Classical racism: the fact that different races have different endowments like animals. Pseudoscience: the scientists themselves were racist and said that intelligence varied from one race to another. People began to believe the scientific beliefs because science was growing at the time. Europeans were stronger, smarter, etc than others physically and mentally. Blaut believes that nazism caused this belief that europeans are better than everyone else some still believe it today but there are less who support that idea.
