What is Orientalism define it ?
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"Orientalism” is a way of seeing that imagines, emphasizes, exaggerates and distorts differences of Arab peoples and cultures as compared to that of Europe and the U.S.
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Answer: The study of the languages, literatures, religions, philosophies, histories, art, and laws of Asian societies, particularly those from antiquity, was known as orientalism in the West throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.
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- Orientalism can also refer to the widespread enthusiasm for all things Asian or "Oriental," which was stimulated by such studies that also influenced larger intellectual and cultural communities in Europe and North America.
- A group of British colonial administrators and academics were known as "Orientalists" who believed that India should be governed in accordance with its own traditions and laws, in contrast to the "Anglicanism" they are of those who believed that India should be governed in accordance with British traditions and laws.
- Orientalists started to use the name Asian studies to describe their work in the middle of the 20th century in an effort to separate it from the colonial and neocolonial implications of Orientalism.
- The word has more recently been disparaged to refer to the purportedly too simplistic, stereotypical, and insulting perceptions of Arab and Asian cultures that are typically held by Western researchers, was largely due to the work of the Palestinian American philosopher Edward Said.
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