According to Edward Said’s 1978 study, Orientalism is a Eurocentric perspective that reflects the domination of the West (the Occident) over the East (the Orient) from the early expansion of capitalism and imperialism to the present. It is a racist construction of Eastern societies as stagnant, militaristic, irrational, and despotic in contrast to Western societies as progressive, civil, rational, and individualistic. By extension, this approach also portrays the peoples of Asia as... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023. 1p.