Afrocentrism is able to be seen as African Americans' unhappiness to affirm themselves in a Eurocentric-dominated society, typically by conceptualizing their inheritance and customs in terms of distinctly African, non-European origins. It often denies or minimizes European ethnic effects while accentuating traditional African civilizations that on their own executed a significant level of social as well as technological advancement. Furthermore, Afrocentrism constantly denies, absolute disregards, or reinterprets specified bad points of black Africans, most especially the selling of African servants by additional Africans to the Europeans, the Rwandan Genocide, and the on-going undertakings against rape and also physical violence in lots of African communities today, typically placing blame for these wrongs right or not directly on the Europeans and also refuting any significant culpability on part of black Africa.