That's the problem with the "eurocentrism" argument: if you find examples in a book, it proves the book is "eurocentric". If you don't, well, you just haven't looked hard enough.
What's wrong with being Eurocentric? It is obvious that Europe's culture--the heritage of the ancient Greeks--is superior in its achievements to other cultures. The wrongs you speak of--slavery, bigotry, and so on--were, of course, committed by the Europeans, but they were committed by everybody else. What makes Europeans special is that they are the only people who ever thought slavery and bigotry are wrong.
Democracy, human rights, the enlightenment, the scientific revolution, and so on are purely European in origin. Socrates was explaining to people that justice is absolute and not due to local customes or the rules' whim when, in Egypt, "justice" was defined as "what Pharaoh loves".
The USA is European not because there were are blacks or chinese in the USA, but because it was established politically, not on the princples of tribal rule like in Africa, or on the principles of an absolute Emperor who is half-divine like in China, but on the principles of the Enlightenment--those of Locke and Rousseau, Pericles and Socrates; and these people were European.
So, three cheers for Eurocentrism.
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