Said discusses “knowing the oriental.” He starts by analyzing speeches and writings of two British …show more content…
This is done by implementing constraints, limitations onto the Orient, the “Occident” believes to be “truths” of the Orient, however, the “truths” they are taking in are learned judgments of the Orient that are built up by the power of the establishment. Which means that this process and orientalism is as destructive to Western culture as it is to the