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Orientalist

Variant of Orientalism

noun

  1. any trait, quality, mannerism, etc. usually associated with people of the East
  2. the study of Eastern culture
  3. a viewpoint, as held by someone in the West, in which Asia or specif. the Arabic Middle East is seen variously as exotic, mysterious, irrational, etc.: term used to impute a patronizing attitude

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