Word: orientalismã
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...Mikado” have on occasion roused controversy. At a recent protest at Occidental College in California, students complained of distortions that are impossible to separate from the imperialist and racist attitudes of the time in which the opera was written.The concern, of course, is a broader one of Orientalism??of the inaccuracies pervasive in Western treatments of Eastern cultures. Any such discussion necessitates the arguments of Edward Said, who observes that “The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings…remarkable experiences...
...Basically, you should adopt the anachronistic theory of “orientalism??: The purpose of visiting a foreign land is not to interact with the land itself, but rather to sample the “local goods...
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