Current Events > Eurocentrism goes beyond just beauty standards.

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People think 'eurocentrism' is just about preferring light skin but it goes beyond that.

For example, in math we have 'mathematical induction' - it's the process for proving something holds true for every natural number.

Blaise Pascal is credited for this discovery yet Abu bakr Al Karaji (Persian) discovered this 600 years before hand and used it to prove the binomial theorem.

Which one did you learn about at school?

Racists are convinced the entire non white world just sat around and did nothing.

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Funny coming from a poster known almost exclusively for racist shitposting

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My math came from a textbook

2 + 2 = Racist

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Wikipedia says "The first explicit formulation of the principle of induction was given by Pascal in his Trait du triangle arithmtique (1665)." And it traces induction back to the ancient Greeks.

Also they really don't teach math history at all in school.
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who is saying european women or women of european origin are the best? people from europe or who whose families were from europe. yeah. it's not like they can force the world to think like them, especially not with the way demographics in the u.s. are going. it's said by 2050 white people in the u.s. will be 44% of the population. this is something that cannot be changed.

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Everything I say is true.

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Wewillrocku posted...

who is saying european women or women of european origin are the best? people from europe or who whose families were from europe. yeah. it's not like they can force the world to think like them, especially not with the way demographics in the u.s. are going. it's said by 2050 white people in the u.s. will be 44% of the population. this is something that cannot be changed.

Advertisers and media in general.

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Damn_Underscore posted...

Also they really don't teach math history at all in school.

This. At best we heard about Euclid briefly.

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terrible topic

Blue_Dream87 posted...

Advertisers and media in general.

and they're european or from europe.

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Wewillrocku posted...

and they're european or from europe.

Most Western countries are in Europe or were once colonies of Europe, yes.

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I wouldn't compare this to beauty standards as they evolve quickly (and the invention of the internet opened the floodgates of culture) and are tied to a very subjective experience, what you describe is literally omitting historical facts. In other words, European history is glorified in European places. This may sound like a bigger problem than it is, talk to the average person and they will explicitly call you a nerd for talking about history and admit they don't know (or give a fuck) anything about who invented whatever. The actual impact isn't there because the overwhelming majority of people simply don't care.

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sevihaimerej posted...

The actual impact isn't there because the overwhelming majority of people simply don't care.

Do you admit they're racist??

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Nukleen posted...

Do you admit they're racist??

The people that don't care? They're just apathetic. The people that willfully rewrite history do seem to have done so for racist reasons and likely are racist but I don't think I have the power to admit that for them, the most I can do is analyze what they've done and summon the little black kid from Wonder Showzen to holler out "THAT'S RACIST" at them.

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