My college application essay was done in the style of a field report in which I detailed my observations of white people and their bizarre behaviors. Racist? Maybe a little. Effective? Heck yeah! Facetiousness aside, this really has been on my mind for over a decade. The Eurocentric view of history is no more ludicrous than any other centric perspective, but the view that one historical perspective is The Right One is crazy. It's such a shame that other histories have been lost, "lost" and outright destroyed.
The problem is that compromising on what's to be included in a textbook will sacrifce some very important history. Yes it skips the vast majority of the Americas but its a full European picture. I'd rather have a full course in history for Europe, America, and the Middle East as standard, but if we can't have that ideal I'll take the full European history and sorry minorities. Maybe one day people will value history as a subject.