#Orientalism

Sanjeev Sanyal

sanjeevsanyal

One signs of a self confident country, is that it's "intellectual" class is confident enough to comment on the rest of the world from its own perspective, and do so

Kamran Matin

KamranMatin

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 #𝗭𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗳’𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄Many c

Sam Hirst

Samuel_J_Hirst

Question (in thread form) about race and Orientalism in the USSR: At the recent #aseees2019 conference, I was struck by the audience's laughter. For example, an art historian pointed out

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singledadjohnny

I feel like not enough nctzens are having a constructive, nuanced discussion about MAW’s concept and why people are so uncomfortable/angry about it. I’m desi, not arab, but as time

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jadhmusic

Had an amazing conversation with my mom on orientalism and being Arab in a western society; how our expierence is not appreciated or understood, but is merely a product of

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mulderareusayin

sorry but screaming at all these articles in awe of KPOP stans being socially engaged as if the most shocking thing about the news cycle is that youth (primarly young

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Marusya_1312

Orientalism is about subjective othering of what's colloquially called "the East." Both negative conceptions with authoritarianism, poverty & constant war as well as festishism with utopia, egalitarianism, paradise. The 2n

sophia

chosuh_

i will never forgive atla for putting a traditional korean hairstyle on top of chinese clothing in the region meant to be based off our japanese colonizers no wonder people

erique 张 (they/them)

er_ique

This is the first discourse I'm reading upon waking up?? I'm going back to sleephttps://twitter.com/AskAKorean/status/1381390534862893057 Love to know we'll always be stuck between being accused of assimilating/being white washe

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vaporbobble

tw #fatphobiauhhhhhhhh....excuse me?? @MarapetsTeam tw #fatphobiaadditionally you can dress your pets in a "Fat Costume" this really sucks @MarapetsTeam! #fatphobiadocumenting this in case they delete it later #fatphobiabtw for co

Radio Free Amanda 余美娜

catcontentonly

US media follows orientalist tradition of not defining China as it actually is, but rather in its perceived relation to the West, so that China never fully exists on its

george whorewell ✨

mementocaelum

okay so let's take her at face value, let's assume she actually does love this country.1. she is a privileged rich white woman who lives in a country that glorifies

Joe DiCola

JoeDiColaChi

Robin D.G. Kelley's foreword to Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson is fascinating and I am inordinately excited to read this book. I wish I'd read this in law school, and

Christian Henderson

CjvHenderson

A thread of examples of environmental Orientalism Black Hawk Down: White people policing over populated native societieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGaFGgjVY_Y "Made in Israel: Water" : European Settler colonies using superior

Elephant Man

AngryLevantine

If I hear the term "Jewish privilege" one more time, I'm going to explode.Thread incoming Europeans stripped us away from our homeland, taught us that we had no history before

Hiba Bég

HibaBeg

Thread With all the talk around the ‘westernisation’ of Maulana Rumi, I want to revisit Edward Said’s ground-breaking ‘Orientalism’, which received a lot of flack, as does anything that attempts