GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Spiritualism, Mongkut, Rob Ford
6 May 2018
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GEOG 1000
November 20, 2017
Orientalism and Making Nations Through Geography
Orientalism
● “Those oriental people work like dogs… they’re slowly taking over” - Rob Ford
● Negro and Oriental banned from federal practice
● It is the study of ‘oriental’ societies by Europeans
○ How europeans thought about asia
● You’re creating the orient as the “other” trying to create a separation that all of
those people are the same.
● A term people still use, a legacy of the colonial period
○ Set up in the early 20th century for Europeans to go study Asia
● Refers to the way people in Asia are broadly stereotyped
● Kipling was a colonial official, he wrote the jungle book and coined the term
“White Man’s Burden”
○ Based on the fundamental division on the way Kipling would see “us”
and “them”
○ The idea that you can take all these diverse societies
○ From a western perspective
● Orientalism is “othering”
○ Defining themselves by defining other people
○ Spiritualism, exotic, traditional, stagnant, irrational, amoral
● This way of thinking about people in Asia became ingrained in popular culture
Flipping the stereotypes:
● Anti-Asian immigration sentiment (“The Yellow Peril”)
● Cartoons from newspapers at the time, mobilizing oriental stereotypes
○ Irrational, dangerous
● World War 2 Anti-Japanese propaganda
● Still shape our ideas about the “Orient” or Asia
○ Aladdin
Document Summary
Those oriental people work like dogs they"re slowly taking over - rob ford. Negro and oriental banned from federal practice. It is the study of oriental" societies by europeans. You"re creating the orient as the other trying to create a separation that all of those people are the same. A term people still use, a legacy of the colonial period. Set up in the early 20th century for europeans to go study asia. Refers to the way people in asia are broadly stereotyped. Kipling was a colonial official, he wrote the jungle book and coined the term. Based on the fundamental division on the way kipling would see us and them . The idea that you can take all these diverse societies. This way of thinking about people in asia became ingrained in popular culture. Cartoons from newspapers at the time, mobilizing oriental stereotypes. Still shape our ideas about the orient or asia.
