For Anibal Quijano, epistemological decolonization is necessary for creating new avenues for intercultural communication, interchange of experiences and meanings as the foundation of another rationality which may justifiably claim some universality.[16] Sabelo Gatsheni argues that epistemological decolonization is crucial in handling the "asymmetrical global intellectual division of labor" in which Europe and North America not only act as teachers of the rest of the world, but also have become the "sites of theory and concept production", which are ultimately "consumed’ by the entire human race."[17]