The invasion of western culture.

According to the Webster Dictionary Eurocentrinism is the "belief in the preeminence of Europe and the Europeans". Does this mean that all other art in the world is not truly indigenous to its own culture??? Has Western culture integrated itself that much??? Western culture has a strange way of being heard and seen all over the world. Why are third world artists always asked to display their cultural identity? When I read the article the thing that stood out to me the most is how as people (maybe just the West) we think that artists's work should be representative of their culture. Why does and artist from Africa have to have "African" art, or an artist from Latin America have to "Latin American" art? Why can't they just be expected to create what they are inspired to create? Colonialsim might be to blame. The West has taken over so much of the world maybe the natives to Africa feel compelled to create art that strictly represents their culture. "Africa is tradition not the present. An anti-Eurocentrism like this freezes all African cultures relegating them to a museum without understanding that they are living organisms which need to respond actively to the reality of their time. If we have to fight relentlessly against colonialism, which castrates much of contemporary art from the Third World, we should not do it through nostalgia for mask and the pyramid" (K&L 222). In my eyes if an artists feels compelled to create something that is representative of their culture that is fine, but all too often it is a representation of a past culture, or not coming from the heart of the artist but from the want of Western society.
"Extreme relativism constitutes another danger. It is said that a village may be ignorant of what happens in a neighboring village, but knows what happens in New York (222). Western Culture has permeated so strongly into other cultures that it is more common for a Third World village to see what is occuring in America than in their neighboring village. That makes me think that the art that is coming out of these places can not be completely true to that culture. Colonialsm has made an impact so strong that it now affects our art.