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 2nd part gets ignored by the artsy marxists on here
Both are racist, dehumanizing & otherizing. Its actually incredibly sinophobic for white girls to festishize China like its a socialist paradise that can do no wrong. And they can only conceive it in this binary. Its either uniquely evil or uniquely righteous. This is racism!
Instead of reaffirming & embracing orientalist conceptions, treat "the East" the way you would treat anywhere else. Its called human condition for a reason, cuz its more or less the common state of being all over the globe.
Yes, there's problems but also there's positives re: culture, society & people. You're categorizing a huge chunk of the globe's population as this or that. And to write off that many people as inherently this or that is incredibly colonialist, racist & domineering.
I wouldnt have this reaction if I was subtweeting a CCP member, aka a Chinese person. But I'm talking about a dumb white hippie karen who bases her entire view of China off a semster abroad. Absolutely disgusting imperial tourism & she's too far up her own ass to realize it
Go ahead and send this thread to her if you want. I shoulda just quote tweeted the fuck. People like her need to be put in their place. It is so absolutely incredibly offensive to chinese people, made worse by the fact she thinks she's helping.
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