What are the main accusations against ethnocentrism? Ethnocentrism, its critics argue, imposes a Western conceptual framework on non-Western forms of life, whose concepts often fail to fit the non-Western realities they purport to describe. This problem, however, is not peculiar to ethnocentrism, but is analogous to the problem of conceivability in the philosophy of spirit and to the problem of obstacle concepts in the philosophy of science in general. Since the latter seems to be slightly less controversial, I'll address it first.