User:SHB2000/How to avoid ethnocentrism in articles

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When writing articles, it's easy to let some ethnocentrism slip through. Most of the time, this is unintentional, but remember that Wikivoyage is written for all travellers from every corner of the globe. That means, it's important to write content that the vast majority of users will understand.

Intentionally making articles more ethnocentric after several discussions is disruptive and you'll be shown the door swiftly.

Don't write "Aepyceros melampus in an African national park" – it's not that hard to spend an extra two seconds by not overgeneralising and writing "Aepyceros melampus in a South African national park", or to be more specific, "Aepyceros melampus in Kruger National Park"

The most common form of ethnocentrism found in articles are overgeneralisations. Examples of that could be saying "This African waterfall is..." or "The South American national park of Torres del Paine is...". Overgeneralisations can even be something more specific such as "Gunung Mulu National Park is on the island of Borneo", with no mention of whether the park is in Indonesia, Malaysia or Brunei.

If the former paragraph was not enough for you to grasp how not to overgeneralise, think whether it's makes sense on the ground. For an example, what's common between the cuisine of Türkiye and Japan, apart from being cuisines of Asia? Likewise, it simply does not make sense for a topic article to cover the cuisines of Mali and Zimbabwe in the same article, per se.