El Occidente bárbaro: la marginalización del pensamiento no occidental

Abstract

-----Talking about the barbarian west when the western civilization arises as the world thought parent sounds contradictory. That is precisely the purpose of this article: to shake the euro-centric conscience. A few years ago, a “wide survey” carried out by the Nobel academy with the aim of determining the “100 books every man should read in his life” selected several works, including Mexican books such as Pedro Páramo, but not a single Arabian, Islamic, African, or Chinese work... Should we conclude that these cultures have not contributed any work of “relevance” to the world? Alternatively, should we conclude that the Western World ignores other cultures’ contributions? This is where the barbarism resides: “The other one is a barbarian because I do not understand him.”