non-Western cultures faced fundamental challenges to their cultural identities
not so much a recentering of culture but a decentering of culture.
In the later nineteenth century and early twentieth century,
what would a decentering of culture have meant for a given cultural group?
Select from Native American, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, or African and research
the impact of Western or European cultures on that group.
What was the selected non-Western culture like prior to the
late nineteenth century? How did it change as a result of European expansion?
How is this change representative of what Sayre calls a decentering of culture?
