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Episode 28 - Orientalism, Cultural Imperialism and Nic Cage

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What Is Orientalism?

Orientalism is its fundamental imagining, or misimagining, physically, aanother culture through a western and european mind. It's completely divorced from the realities of the societies that are actually being depicted. The very idea of orient too, by the way, is completely ridiculous. You can't take in cultures and peoples and languages and religions of molly, algeria, irac avronistan andk east asia, and put them into one blanket,. you know, oriental image or box. Or depending on the white mano f the european this can be either for intentions of subjugation, because they want for colonial aims. This could be for

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