계속 읽어보는데도 무슨 말인지 도통 모르겠어요ㅠㅠ 빈칸 상관없이 해석좀 부탁드려요.as europeans were forced to confront the non-european world. first as colonial masters, then as patrons during the cold war and theoretical equals in a world of sovereign nation states, they _________________________________.

the suicidal self-destructiveness of the european state system in two world wars gave lie to the notion of superior western rationality, while the distintion between civilized and barbarian that was instinctive to europeans in the nineteenth century was much harder to make after the nazi death camps. instead of human history leading in a single direction, there seemed to be as many goals as there were peoples or civilizations, with liberal democracy having no particular privilege among them.