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orientalism  

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  • Orient, meaning “the East,” is juxtaposed to Occident, “the West.” Orientalism is a system of thoughts, beliefs, theories, and discourses propagated by Western scholars about the East, including Middle East as well as Asia. Orientalism describes the representation and the construction of the East in the imagination of the West. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society; Orientalism]

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