Humanocentrism

"You [ Councilor Beruss ] refer to us as 'alien,' and the Princess calls us 'non-human.' Why are we defined by you and in comparison to you?"

- Borks Fey'lya, 7 ABY

Humanocentrism was the tendency of to view the galaxy from the perspective the human majority.

While more passive than High Human Culture, humanocentrism was pervasive and in many cases, subconscious. It was the source for the human use of the term "alien" to describe non-human species and in some cases tended towards non-human speciesism. As such, the term is often synonymosu with that variety of speciesism.

Proponents of extreme humanocentrism pointed to the fact that humans had founded the Galactic Republic, Galactic Empire, Rebel Alliance, and New Republic; many of the Galaxy's best known military leaders and heroes were humans; that the Core Worlds were almost all founded and universally inhabited by humans; that Coruscant, the Galactic capital, was widely believed to have been the homeworld of mankind.

Although humanocentrism was technically outlawed by the Rights of Sentience clause of the Galactic Constitution, it still very much existed throughout the life of the Old Republic. Human-led companies such as Czerka enslaved entire nonhuman races, while planets such as Taris reserved the best sections of the world for humans, while forcing nonhumans into ghettos. The majority of slaves in the Galaxy were nonhumans.

Although many of these infractions took place in areas of the Galaxy where the Republic had tenuous control at best (such as the Outer Rim), or no control (such as the Senex Sector), many of them existed where the Republic was very much in control - yet still refused to take action (the Avenue of the Core Founders being an example). At the time the Clone Wars broke out, there were still lawsuits pending about pro-human bias in the Republic government.

The idea of humanocentrism reached its peak in the High Human Culture ideal of the Galactic Empire, and its subsequent genocide and slavery. After the Empire's fall, the Human League kept their ideals alive in New Republic space.