Orientalism

like animals, trying to lock them in a jail cell and take away their rights. They are treated like some other species that hasn’t been domesticated when really, they’re humans and know how to live on their own. Another example being from Khan’s Orientalism, “Racial superiority requires racial distinction, separating various peoples into discrete ethnic groups.” Khan then goes on to describe how the size of skulls go in to determining a person’s ethnicity. The smaller the skull, the dumber the…

of their culture rather—and more specifically for their perceived ability to live in peaceful coexistence with nature and outside of corrupting western influence (Kent, 1). In a way, the fascination surrounding the “Noble Savage,” is a form of orientalism, a term used to describe the way the Western world mystifies the East, seeing it and the people who live there as separate and “other” (Nair-Venugopal, 3). Popular culture about indigenous people portrays them as spiritual, attuned to nature,…

The entire population is one collective power since there are no superior and inferior individuals. With that, comes the abolishment of orientalism. The objectification and commodification of native cultures is eradicated if the natives and the colonizer respect one another. Aziz and Fielding imagine of a time when all of the imperialism in India will go away, and how when “India [is] a nation…

colonization and Orientalism. The “yellow peril” is conceivably the longest standing stereotype held against Asians and Asian Americans. Yellow peril refers to the idea that Asians and Asian Americans are threatening to invade and Asianize the U.S. nation. Yellow peril discourse…

The immigrants coming to the United States from Muslim countries in the recent years have been middle to upper class. Many young students travel to the United States to attend American colleges and then end up making the United States their homes. The middle age individuals traveling to the United States tend to have a degree as a physician or lawyer before arriving. Comparing it to European immigration of Muslims, they do not typically have a degree to this level or immigrate to attend…

After the film had aired, both Theo van Gogh and Hirsi Ali received thousands of death threats, which resulted in the murder of Theo Van Gogh and the seclusion of Hirsi Ali. According to some scholars, Theo van Gogh’s troubled history with the Muslim community justified the leaders blaming the film that for spreading Islam phobia. Theo van Gogh was a well-known Dutch filmmaker/author and is the great grand nephew of the famous painter Vincent van Gogh. Unfortunately, Theo van Gogh was not famous…

with the Caucasian majority of the United States. They were regarded as unassimilable and they were denied citizenship through naturalization. Only by birth did the Nisei were granted with citizenship. The Nisei grew up in a time of hostile anti-Orientalism. Citizens in the frontier West regarded the Chinese immigrants, who helped build the railroad, equivalent to black slaves…

exaggerated and inexact and also sometime unclear and grotesque. Dissanayanke and Wickramagamage has identified "the distinction between fiction (created) and travel writing (factual) is a false one but also points to the misinterpretation, distortion, orientalisms and search for cheap effects that characterize much travel writings." They introduce three different types of travel writing: the Information- Oriented Experiential…

itself, in such as ethnicities and religious affiliations that were once among the majority becoming the minorities. These developments created an uncertain theoretical focus within anthropology during the 1960s and 1970, until 1979, where the book Orientalism(1979) by Edward. W. Said (1935-2003) championed a new moral and epistemological course for theoretical methodology within anthropology. Said’s legacy was grounded in his activism on behalf of dispossessed individuals and is said to be the…

A Reaction to Narayan’s Dislocating Cultures. Uma Narayan’s article raises multiple questions about how third world issues are perceived by western bodies. In her article, Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism, she looks at the “‘effects’ that national contexts have on the construction of feminist issues and the ways in which understandings of issues are then affected by border crossings across national boundaries” and how culture is invoked in explaining the…