Eurocentrism is a worldview that favors European and Western values over all other beliefs and traditions. This perspective first became normalized in the Age of Discovery in the 15th century when European countries began venturing into the Americas. During this time, countries such as Britain, France, and Spain wielded their wealth and prosperity not as…
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Diaspora(n.): the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland. How is it that we find ethnically similar people in vastly different areas? Diaspora. Simply put, diaspora refers to people moving outwards from their home country into other nations. Diaspora can also refer to the people who have moved…
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Whirr! Whirr! You sit up straight, straining your ear, trying to figure out whether the noise you just heard was a figment of your imagination or not. Crunch! Crunch! You rush outside. A couple of bulldozers are tearing your precious house down. You signal violently to them, but they don’t listen. You scream at them,…
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Yellow Peril (n.): a metaphor representative of the danger and threat to Western civilization East Asian peoples hold from an expansion of power and influence Although “threat” and “danger” are common words associated with the term “Yellow Peril,” the above definition does not fully expand on the often racist connotations that accompany this term. In…
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