I never said your question was ethnocentric. I said it was narrow-minded.
BUT STILL
the definition of ethnocentric is:
“1. the belief in the inherent superiority of one’s own ethnic group or culture.
2.a tendency to view alien groups or cultures from the perspective of one’s own.”
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ethnocentric
I never implied that my culture was better AND I didn’t say anything about any other groups or cultures in my question, so clearly I couldn’t possibly have viewed them from the perspective of my own, because I didn’t say anything about them. My question does not fit EITHER definition of the word ethnocentric.
Your question, on the other hand, fits BOTH. It implied that other cultures were not only lower than European because they were not able to come up with “commerce, industry, religion, government” on their own, but also “derived” from yours unless they were “tribal”.
THAT’s how your question is ethnocentric and mine is not.
I’m still so surprised that you’re more interested in me, my profile, and my questions than a history book or a dictionary…