With a new understanding of
depth psychology, mythology and comparative religion we are gaining a greater appreciation of spiritual
ways of life, like the science of yoga, which developed outside of both
the European and Middle Eastern cultural matrixes. A number of racial, ethnic and
religious groups have challenged their negative portrayal in modern Euro centric
historical accounts.
For example, the European conquest of
America, which was previously regarded as the benign expansion of advanced European
civilization, is now being reinterpreted as a genocide of native peoples and
destruction of their ancient cultures. Non-European cultures are no longer accepting the European
interpretation of their histories, which not surprisingly makes their
cultures inferior to that of Europe.
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