Orient Express

suppress another race. These cultural norms and laws can be used by the majority race to exploit and discriminate against the minority race. One example of the effects of superior position is called Orientalism which is a prejudice form of perceiving the Orient and its people as inferior. Orientalism distorts the imagines and exaggerates the culture of Arabs as uncivilized, exotic, dangerous, and subsidiary in comparison to Europe and the United States. Edward W. Said, one of the most important figures of

History is about the present as much as it is concerned with the past because the past forms the foundation of how things are today which will also become history in years to come. As my own practice is music heavily influenced by the west, I will be exploring the definition of Orientalism and The Primitive and Pagan in Contemporary Art with some analysis of their long history before identifying their effects on today’s western music. Famous orientalist, Edward Said, explained in his book ‘Orientalism’

Thesis: In the play, M. Butterfly, both main characters challenge the gender stereotypes between the West and East. Paragraph One: Song used Gallimard to further advance China by getting government files. For example, Song states to the judge, “The West has sort of an international rape mentality towards the East...The West thinks of itself as masculine-big guns, big industry, big money-- so the East is feminine-- weak, delicate, poor...”(62). Song created the ultimate fantasy where he made Gallimard

Edward Said’s “States” features an insightful, in depth analysis of “Orientalism” as it applies to Palestinians and Israelis. He begins with a description of Palestine and the Palestinian condition using photographs to demonstrate a more humanized perspective of these transient people. Said reflects on his childhood in Palestine and draws from personal experience to paint a picture of a people without a home, or to be more accurate, people without an identity. A rhetorical analysis reveals the levels

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This chapter will investigate Orientalism in fashion and the Ballet Russe. The Orient has been a foundation of inspiration in the seventeenth century, when belongings from the Orient was first seen in the Europe. The term ‘Orientalism’ has changed overtime. However, it still refers to the appropriation by western designers of exotic, nostalgia from the East. Orientalism had been a craze since the turn of the century, reaching a peak with the arrival of the Ballets Russes in Paris 1909. The Ballets

All the strange activities, rituals, cuisines, costumes, and etc. that the east revel in is only a fabrication of western imagination. The orients are either characterized as evil mob, sword wielding, or welcoming, peaceful villagers in need of help. For instance, the elder who asked Indiana to retrieve the sankara stone stolen from the village is portrayed with white hair, wearing a robe, and

to answer the question of why, when we think of the Orient, we have a preconceived notion of what kind of people live there, what they believe, and how they act; even when we may have never been there or met anyone from there. Said argues that the way we acquire this knowledge is not objective, but rather the end result of a process that reflects certain interests. Said claims that the way the West looks at the countries and peoples of the Orient is through a lens that distorts the actual reality

To start with, lets us go through the simple definitions of these concepts, Orientalism, Panopticism and Ornamentalism. According to Edward Saied, orientalisim simply refers to the way of depicting the Orient or East, in contrast to the Occident or West and also enables the political, economic, cultural and social domination of the West not just during colonial times, but also in the present. As indicated by Mechal Focault, panopticism is a social hypothesis or theory named after the word ‘Panopticon’

perceived as a monolithic entity, diametrically opposed to the Orient on a cultural level. Occidentalism as practiced by Oriental scholars traces its intellectual roots to traditional European Orientalism, and retains the very same fallacies that have recently become so reviled amongst Western academics in regard to Orientalism. The core component of Occidentalism is a perception of an inherent oppositional dichotomy between Occident and Orient. The Occident, considered as superior on a technological