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and scholarship. Critics have noted the usage of Americentric views specifically in the United States' public school systems' educational policy in world history. Sources claim that schools in the United States often tend to prioritise the detailed teaching of the history of Europe and the United
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In terms of scholarship, it has been noted by various observers that the field of psychological research is predominantly influenced by Americans. It has been asserted that Americans hold the highest share as producers of psychological research, with a significant focus on studying Americans
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Critics of Americentrism denote the ideology in fear of misunderstandings between peoples or nations, and in some cases, escalating into severe racial conflicts or even wars. They claim that distorted Americentrism has the potential to foster racism, create chaos, or ignite armed conflicts.
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Critics of American policies utilise the term in a negative context to highlight a deliberate, nationalistic ignorance displayed by the American government towards its own faults, warning of the possible distortion of international relations possible by followers of the ideology.
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Another instance of Americentrism is in the high focus companies have on US markets in relation to others. Often, products produced and developed outside the US are still marketed as typically American.
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themselves. Therefore there have been criticisms of theories and principles derived from such research in if it is universally applicable to all human beings.
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is more important than those of other countries or to judge foreign cultures based on American cultural standards. It refers to the practice of
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Scholarship of Americentrism traces the ideological system's origins, historically, to the late 1700s following the established
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States in their World History curriculum, while providing only brief coverage of events in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
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from an overly US-focused perspective, with an implied belief, either consciously or subconsciously, in the
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Such scholarship itself was initially built on Jim Blaut's 1980s scholarship of Eurocentrism by Geographer
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with regards to its occasional preference towards US English sources, language, and spelling.
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William R. Thompson, "Global War and the Foundations of US Systemic Leadership", chap. 7 in
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have been perceived to contain an Americentric bias in the selection of their material.
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that idolizes the newly founded United States' ideals of freedom and democracy.
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Seymour Martin Lipset. New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc. 1996. p. 18.
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Index

Americentric
Americanism
American exceptionalism

United States
Latin America
Monroe Doctrine
culture of the United States
viewing the world
preeminence
American exceptionalism
independence of the United States
Eurocentrism
Richard Peet
American television networks
European Commission
NSA
ICANN
English Knowledge
criticized
systemic bias

American educational policy
Jeffrey Arnett
Afrocentrism
American exceptionalism
American nationalism
American way
Anti-Americanism
Discovery doctrine

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