COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Multiculturalism
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Occidentalism
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Orientalism
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Hybridity
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Detailed explanation-1: -Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient delves into the attitudes of the West towards the Eastern culture, through the course of history. Through the course of this book, Said explains that Orientalism is used to explain the subtle, yet persistent prejudice against individuals of Arab-Islamic origin.
Detailed explanation-2: -Etymology. Orientalism refers to the Orient, in reference and opposition to the Occident; the East and the West, respectively. The word Orient entered the English language as the Middle French orient.
Detailed explanation-3: -The notion of Orientalism was fabricated by the West in an attempt to understand the East. However, the Orient as it was created doesn’t represent the real East; rather, it is a lens through which the East was approached, studied and categorized by the West through its own imagination.
Detailed explanation-4: -Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said’s 1978 book “Orientalism” served as a critique for these attitudes by basically defining Orientalism as latent, manifest or contemporary.