SOCC29H3 Lecture Notes - Eurocentrism, Cultural Imperialism, Ethnocentrism
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Type of eurocentric prejudice directed against oriental people and cultures. Based on a distinction made between the occident (self) and the orient as fundamentally different. They were described as inferior, irrational, depreaved and childlike. The term orient is no longer correct because it comes with a lot of supresses actions. The colonized were essentialized or depicted a shaving fixed attributes which did not vary (boiled down their people into their essence, based on their blood that they are like that therefore unchanging) This is typical when a dominant group wants to colonize a submissive group. So say the word west is also eurocentric because it means that europe is in the middle of the world. These ideas were being formed by colonizers and their elite allies in the orient during the 17th to. These ideas were formed so that they could justify the economic and political ecpliatation of oriental locales. They could now define, control and manipulate these oriental people.
