Editing Eurocentrism (section)

== Latin America==
Eurocentrism affected Latin America through colonial domination and expansion.<ref name="Quijano">{{cite journal |last1=Quijano |first1=Aníbal |title=Coloniality of Power and Eurocentrism in Latin America |journal=[[International Sociology]]|date=29 June 2016 |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=215–232 |doi=10.1177/0268580900015002005 |s2cid=144941229 }}</ref> This occurred through the application of new criteria meant to "impose a new social classification of the world population on a global scale".<ref name="Quijano"/> Based on this occurrence, a new social-historic identities were newly produced, although already produced in America. Some of these names include; 'Whites', 'Negroes', 'Blacks', 'Yellows', 'Olives', 'Indians', and 'Mestizos'.<ref name="Quijano"/> With the advantage of being located in the Atlantic basin, 'Whites' were in a privileged to control gold and silver production.<ref name="Quijano"/> The work which created the product was by 'Indians' and 'Negroes'.<ref name="Quijano"/> With the control of commercial capital from 'White' workers. And therefore, Europe or Western Europe emerged as the central place of new patterns and capitalist power.<ref name="Quijano"/>