Americentrism is the ethnocentric practice of viewing the world from an explicitly American perspective, with an implied belief, either consciously or subconsciously, in the preeminence of American (and, more generally, of Western) culture.^[1]

The authors Ziauddin Sardar, a Pakistan-born British Muslim, and Merryl Wyn Davies, writing about the overt Americentrism of the US media have referred to a phenomenon known as 'the international balcony' where events in US dramas typically begin with a US setting, shift to a generically 'foreign' (usually Eastern European) location and are then resolved in the US.^[2]

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• American exceptionalism
• Manifest Destiny
• Afrocentrism
• Eurocentrism
• Sinocentrism
• Imperialism
• Cultural Imperialism

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