Eurocentrism or Eurocentricity has the same basic ideals as nationalism ( nationalism identified as an” identification with one’s own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations” or rather, “advocacy of or support for the political independence of a particular nation or people”), only eurocentrism is in a manner of speaking more generalized- focusing on a mass area “Europe” instead of just region. In eurocentricity one( from western or Europe descent) regards their society and civilization as far superior than their (non-European) friends/counterparts. (They are biased in Western European favor)
The term “eurocentrism” was popularized in the late 1900s to frequently define the progress in developing countries through industrialization, by way of: western contributions, decolonization, development and access to resources such as, (humanitarian) aid. Ignoring the impact of non-western contributions and amping up the outcomes of western epistemologies. With eurocentrism you see ethnocentrism (“evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one’s own culture”-Oxford dictionary) as it forms the many biases that form the foundation for eurocentrism. And vice versa as the two terms feed off each other as there would be no ethnocentrism if for not the nature of eurocentrism.
“In Central Asian conditions, a speedy integration is likely to make the national interests of the states with powerful economies a higher priority, above those of the other states, for the supranational bodies. From this point of view, neither Kyrgyzstan nor Tajikistan can compete with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, or even Turkmenistan.” Like most Central Asian countries, Tajikistan has suffered from a low level (stage 2) of globalization and industrialization. Though there is still a level of interrogation (with Afghanistan and Iran) that is promising, but ultimately shaded from Tajikistan’s Soviet Union history causing a negative view of Tajikistan, harming further integration- as “from the position of the ethnocratic political elites of Tajikistan,… today’s hasty integration of these countries into a common Central Asian zone doesn’t satisfy their specific national interests.”- as “attitudes to all forms of regional integration means nothing less than hacking the roots nourishing the very process of creating and safeguarding future development of national states in the region and undermining conceptions of national revival which comprise the foundation of statehood of the Central Asian Countries.” The country has been overcome and shares the Russian language, Tajikistan still strives to be an independent country; which is why even though Tajikistan has more borders with its neighbors like Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan and fewer borders with Russian, Tajikistan has fewer problems with there follow Asian -Stan states, as they strive to broaden their influence in the integration process, even at their possible decreasing national state authority- they each have a strong nationalism, and eurocentrism, and not so much committed to dominating Tajiks cultural identity through states authority unlike the Soviet Union. As Tajikistan fights to be an independent from the Soviet Union they refuse to be the submissive “Little Brother,” fighting against their neighbors’ ideals- causing the region’s culture to have two platforms (Islamic (their historic hierarchical culture) and a Soviet one,) and both deny that either country had any impact in the development of each other – “ those cultures share a common civilizational platform,” but not cultures, as they “appear to shun” the other. Which also causes a rise in Tajik nationalism.
By: Bella Noah
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