User:Til Eulenspiegel/Wikipedia should have no bias, and an 'academic' is a scholar

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=Wikipedia should have no bias, and an 'academic' is a 'scholar' in English!=

(A rebuttal of User:Tgeorgescu's essay Academic bias, full of perceptions that were opposed by nearly everyone at Village Pump!)

Systemic Bias

 * See also: WP:BIAS

(explanation)

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 * It is more widely known among English speakers that the Scots and Irish had origin legends tracing back to the Scythians. It is less likely to be known that Cambodians, at the opposite end of Eurasia, also trace their legendary origins to the Scythians.
 * The experiences of Jews in Europe are more widely known. It is less widely known that there have been officially Jewish states and tribes at various times in parts of Africa, Arabia, Persia, Afghanistan, and the Russian steppes.
 * Many people think of 'Christianity' in terms of 'Western Christianity' (Catholic and Protestant), with little notice to Eastern Orthodox, and still less awareness of other ancient denominations like the Miaphysites, who have had churches and State religions in Africa, Arabia, and the Caucasus; or the Nestorian Church, which had spread congregations as far as India, Mongolia and China by the 600s. The viewpoints of western Churches regarding doctrinal differences toward these Eastern ones (which continue to have hundreds of millions of adherents worldwide) should not be incorporated into a Wikipedia bias.
 * Local history articles should not say (recently corrected example) "Vincent Hobbs was the first occupant of current Lee County, Virginia". He was not the first occupant, he was the first white settler.