I'm not Polynesian, yet you don't ask this question of Mr Keith who initiated the 'sensibilities' remarks.

Nor am I but half European, the other half being Cherokee, straight outta the Quallah tribe. Being that most of the US is of European descent, as certainly was Petty and very likely Herreshoff, the term applies.

Nevertheless, Eurocentric is a term used as opposed to, shall we say, colonial, or dare I say primitive? The concept that a 'developed country' must have invented this 'modern' technology would be termed 'Eurocentric.'