And this is from a prof who has integrated other culture's ideas a lot less into his whole life than I have.
By the way, I agree wholeheartedly with these posts, especially AmishDude before you. I just need to have someone agree with me, rather than those on the **** committees.
We ARE Euro-centric. We should learn about our own history. If there is time left over, THEN we learn about other ones. No use to learn about every culture unless we can compare and contrast it with our own. It's like learning Spanish and Italian before you learn English. Why bother? There is only so much time and if you have no foundational structure to layer the new stuff on, there is only confusion. Given that you have to make decisions about what is REALLY important, then chose the most important first. We live in a Euro-Centric world and it is really all you need to understand as a foundation. Then go ahead and travel, learn another language, cook other foods. Without a foundation you are just skimming the surface of all and focusing on none. Eurocentric 'isn't right'????? It IS right. It is how our civilization was educated for, let's say, a thousand years. It is all Geo Washington knew, for heaven's sake, and he did ok. etc etc. The multi-cultural stuff is HOGWASH.