ASIAN 101 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Confucianism, Soul, Indian Subcontinent
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A sia n 1 01 t h e i d e a o f a s ia. The idea of asia: asia as a continent, asia is everything that europe is not, eurocentric, because these people are not like us, they are asia not. Europe: separation not only eurocentric, asian people describe themselves with their culture and all, separations still present. Orientalism depicts people of orient as less than fully human: 2. Representations, taken together, create a discourse about the orient: 3. Orientalist discourse has been used to justify the (cid:1688)superior(cid:1689) position of the west: 4. (cid:1688)superior(cid:1689) position has been used to justify. Western intervention into asian countries (colonization, financial, military intervention: orientalism still present in pop culture - got, paint a homogenous picture of asia, when it is truly a diverse place. Bangladesh, maldives: east asia - china, mongolia, taiwan, koreas, japan, south east asia - philippines, indonesia, myanmar, thailand,
