European chauvinism dates only from industrialization, not before

Evidence

Development is another boundary of difference. This derives from earlier ideas of progress, viewed as a single-track path with less and more advanced peoples and civilizations. The eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment set forth a schema of evolutionary stages, from primitivism, savagery, and barbarism to civilization. These were combined with modes of production: hunters and gatherers, agriculture and crafts, and industrial society. The development gap only arose when the difference in technological capacity between Europe and non-Western countries became significant - from the turn of the eighteenth century onward, with the onset of industrialization. Prior to that time, Europeans had looked up to other civilizations and been inspired by their example (see Nederveen Pieterse, 1994). European chauvinism only dates from that period. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 198 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Altogether western Europe had acquired a greater richness of forms, of corporate life, a greater crystallization of habits into institutions, than any known elsewhere. It had a remarkable ability to forge societal ties, more tenacious than almost any others apart from those of the family and its extensions, clan or caste; ties that could survive from one epoch to another, and be built into more elaborate combinations. But along with fixity of particular relationships went a no less radical instability of the system as a whole. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 196 (#complicates, via linked claim)

European civilization is not the product of capitalism. On the contrary, the character of capitalism can only be understood in the social and historical context of its appearance. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 197 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: European chauvinism only emerged with industrialization around 1800 — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 198; European economic and cultural backwardness, not superiority, preceded its hegemony; Capitalism was shaped by preexisting European civilization, not the reverse (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• European chauvinism only emerged with industrialization around 1800 #corroborates (0.98) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 198
• Western Europe’s institutional fecundity predates and conditions capitalism #complicates (0.78) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 196
• Capitalism is a product of European civilization, not its creator #complicates (0.76) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 197
• Capitalism was shaped by preexisting European civilization, not the reverse #complicates (0.75)
• European racism began inside Europe before capitalism or African encounters #complicates (0.72) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 17