Question

Who were occidentalists

Answer 1

Occidentalism is often counterpart to the term orientalism as used by Edward Said in his book of that title, which refers to and identifies Western stereotypes of the Eastern world, the Orient.

Answer 2

Occidentalism as a modern phenomenon is the dehumanizing picture of the West and the authors who produced and believe in such a dehumanizing picture of the west are known as Occidentalists.

Occidentalism is a counterpart as well as counterattack to the Orientalism. The Orientalism is a stereotype representation of East by the Westerners.The orientalists regarded east (Orient) as stagnant, uncivilized and backward.

Similarly Occidentalists termed the West ( Occident) as dehumanizing, lacking culture, soul and religion. " In his book Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies with Ian Buruma, Margalit explored anti-Western stereotypes and traced their source to the West itself