Word: exoticism
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The society of the United States is Eurocentric. We are taught that the West is the seat of civilization, that Western society is the most "developed." According to Western "standards" the non-Western world is "barbaric," "primitive," "savage," "native" and "exotic." When they look at Chile and call it underdeveloped...
At Tokyo's coed Gakushu-in University, he enjoys belting sake and bellowing folk songs with classmates. But Japan's handsome Prince Hiro also respects tradition. So last week, having just turned 20, he participated in an exotic 8th century coming-of-age ceremony called kakan no gi...
Ten years after medical school and his Sutherland novel, Liza of Lambeth, Maugham emerged as a successful playwright, an Edwardian Neil Simon who had two and three pro ductions running simultaneously on the London stage. World War I found him driving an ambulance through the mud of France and correcting...
O'Neill added he will start a solar energy program. "We in politics have treated solar energy almost as if it has been an exotic art, and the reason for that is that it has not been affordable to middle-income and lower-income people," he said, adding that solar...
Now Soviet scientists are reviving a more down-to-earth explanation. After six years of investigation, researchers at the Institute of Geochemistry and Mineral Physics in Kiev have concluded that the blast was caused by something less exotic: a meteorite. Many scientists in the past refused to accept the meteorite...