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Is there polycentricity in the development of human civilization (including culture and education)? How to treat "western centralism"?
Humans entered the civilized era from primitive society (slave society at first), starting from the East. The development of human education is also based on the East. As some impartial western scholars have affirmed, "light comes from the East" and "history begins from the East". So there is no polycentricity of human civilization.

Western centralism is an unconscious premise of western culture, from ancient times to the present. To some extent, western culture is superior to non-western culture; Or human history revolves around western culture; Or think that the characteristics, values or ideals of western culture have some universality, thus representing the future development direction of non-West, all with the color of western centralism.

However, as anthropologists tell us, culture is self-centered, and in the initial stage of cultural contact, each culture thinks it is superior to another. Although western culture is superior to non-western culture in this world, it is undeniable that human civilization originated in the East, especially the long-standing, ancient and charming China culture. Educational characteristics of ancient oriental civilization