occidentalism
IPA: ɑksʌdˈɛnʌɫɪzʌm
noun
- The habits and attitudes of westerners.
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Examples of "occidentalism" in Sentences
- Jager confesses himself intrigued by occidentalism.
- Iris nflrgifiicay — Globe Flower, Cephalanthus occidentalism
- Hi, I am writing about occidentalism and your book :"Orientalism and Occidentalism..."
- Bilgrami links such critical power to what he calls "occidentalism," namely a critique of the west.
- Jager argues that the critical reach of Byron's occidentalism actually goes beyond Bilgrami's, for it allows the reader to glimpse the costs of enchantment.
- Just when those cottages and rills seem to be supporting a myth of little England in the desert, a kind of mirror-image orientalism, an 'occidentalism', we are drawn to the odoriferous trade winds whose scent of luxury wafted across the ocean to the Providential nose of the English consumer.
- From this viewpoint (I would be happy to hear whether romanticists think it is mis-named "romantic"), the seriously consequential mistake that Said's concept of orientalism diagnosed in Western visions of the East can easily flip over into occidentalism, a blanket hostility to the West from within the West.
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