Thomas Hobbes, St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Moses, John Locke, Ben Franklin, William Shakespeare, King James I, Sigmund Freud, Gustav Le Bon, Freiderich Nietzche, Ayn Rand, Søren Kierkegaard, Winston Churchill, Walter Kaufmann, Frank Channing Haddock, Henry Louis Mencken, Ambrose Bierce, George Patton, just to mention a few.
There is a reason the English language has an edge over other languages and Modern Western Civilization is a dominant culture in the world. The evidence of this is a comparison between former English colonies and other former European colonies across the globe. Which civilizations who were former colonies of European powers are the most succsessful?
Also, at the risk of sounding ethnocentric, of all the greatest social and scientific inventions, advancements in technology for the last several centuries - - what global demographic has improved the human condition in this regard more so than any other? The European male.
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Also, at the risk of sounding ethnocentric, of all the greatest social and scientific inventions, advancements in technology for the last several centuries - - what global demographic has improved the human condition in this regard more so than any other? The European male.<<<<eth·no·cen·trism- Belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group.
Cultural -denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people; "influenced by ethnic and cultural ties"- 3: of or relating to the shared knowledge and values of a society; "cultural roots"
Was this due to:
IF #1, then ethnocentric would apply.
IF #2, then culturalcentric would be a better term.
IF #3, then some lengthy term would be more accurate.