The term Eurocentrism applies to any type of attitude, posture or intellectual, historiographic approach and social evolution, which considers that Europe and its culture have been the heart and engine of civilization, and that therefore identifies the European history with the Universal history. Eurocentrism is a form of ethnocentrism.Eurocentrism refers more specifically to the gaze of the world from the Western European experience, where the advantages or benefits to Europeans and their descendants are achieved at the expense of other cultures, justifying this action with paradigms or ethical standards. Refer [who?] then one to do specific rationality or perspective of knowledge that makes hegemonic colonizing and overlapping all other, previous or different, and their respective specific knowledge, both in Europe and in the rest of the world does.?? Thus, it was concluded that ethnocentrism as intellectual tradition, as a method of analysis of cultures dominated and dominant or hegemonic idea of superiority ( and in the Eurocentrism ) You must be subject to constant criticism in the Academy for various disciplines, where the constraints given by the considered cultural hegemonies of higher rank distort the cultural reality and social world, ignoring or suppressing a plurality of cultures who want to be a copy of the dominant culture.Eurocentrism is also a cognitive bias, which implies the existence of linear historical experiences moved by cultural patterns fixed, corresponding to the provided by European, whereas the non-European careers as incomplete formations or deformadas.1 history