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History and society in western countries is absurdly Euro-centric, it sounds like an oxymoron but it should not be. You must be aware enough to realize what is an absolute truth and what it is just relative from your POV. The other day I had a discussion online mocking the concept that "Aboriginal Australians are so unique because they split from the Europeans first" as if they cannot say exactly the same.

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At least in the English language, many, many subjects are less Euro-centric and more Anglo-centric: everything is seen from the vantage of the south-eastern part of a tiny island in the North Atlantic. What's so dark about the Dark Ages? Outside of the north-western boundaries of the Roman empire, not much.

> everything is seen from the vantage of the south-eastern part of a tiny island in the North Atlantic.

Iceland? :)

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