Euramerican

[ yoor-uh-mer-i-kuhn, yur- ]

adjective

1. Euro-American.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Euramerican¹

First recorded in 1940–45; Eur(o)- + American

Example Sentences

But mine is not a Greece that slots in neatly at the beginning of a Euramerican story of the rise of western rationality.

From Time

The work is, however, generally regarded as a transportation plan, since Sun Yat-sen sketched out a railway map of China which would require decades to realize, and which overshadowed, by its very magnitude, the other aspects of his proposals.159.At the risk of digression, one might comment on an interesting element of the Euramerican ideology which is in sharp contrast to the Chinese.

From Project Gutenberg

Movement was nevertheless continuous and conspicuous; a proof of this movement is to be found in the fact that there are really no supremely great families in China, comparable to the great names of Japan or of the Euramerican nations.

From Project Gutenberg

Before proceeding to the exposition of Sun Yat-sen's theories and programs, it is necessary that a superlatively important consideration be emphasized: namely, that Sun Yat-sen was a Chinese, that the nation he worked for was China, and that the intellectual and social background of his labors was one completely different from that of the Euramerican world.

From Project Gutenberg

In any event, it is questionable whether the completely revolutionary reorganization of Chinese society—of the type that Sun Yat-sen found it necessary to support—would have been either worth-while or probable in the absence of Euramerican aggression, and the appearance, all about China, of a new, hostile, and unstable environment.

From Project Gutenberg