Orientalism Flashcards
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Orientalism
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a colonist mindset of seeing and defining Middle Eastern and Asian cultures as inferior, backwards, exotic, or in need of rescuing; associated with Edward Said
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Edward Said: Orientalism
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Westeners see themselves as being able to explain the Orient and Islam, Orient can’t represent itself, and this is a huge issue as Westeners have “othered” the Middle East and created a barrier from fully understanding
