Word: orientalistes
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...learned already at Harvard. But at Chicago he has gone much further, as I have had the gratifying opportunity to see on numerous occasions in the marvelous seminar that Momigliano [the late classical historian] has run with major contribution from Valeri and Sahlins in Anthropology, and Stager on the Orientalist side. He now holds his own with bristly graduate students expounding semiotics and structural Marxism, and returns the fire of central-place theorists with the historicism of a la longue duree. And yet through all of this the logic of his own work, his own work, his capacity to conceptualize...
...decades of Australian xenophobia linger in Asian memories. On Hong Kong and Malaysian television, Australia is often portrayed as a racist country. Australians, on the other hand, are still prey to what Governor-General Bill Hayden, the Queen's representative in the federal government, recently called "Orientalist fantasies," timeworn images of exotic, erotic and despotic Asians. Even after the cultural and economic transformations of the past decade, Australia differs radically from its neighbors in language, law, religion, concepts of democracy and every tradition...
This was my point exactly, and I was impressed by such perceptiveness. Yet the letter went on to accuse me of insulting "all people in the region who are living under the threat of war and destruction," and, even worse, of promoting "the Orientalist attitudes of Western peoples who think they know the wishes and thoughts of the Arabs better than they do themselves...
...Since the 1973 oil embargo, their ancient civilization has been reduced to a caricature world of terrorists and greedy oil sheiks. Like Blacks, Arabs have earned the right to be sensitive. Yet the PLO is hardly beyond criticism; opposing their support for Saddam does not make me a sinister Orientalist any more than criticizing the death penalty makes me a white supremacist...
...other hand, maybe I should avoid drawing about politics, race and religion. I'm already marked as a racist, anti-Semitic Orientalist, and I'm still waiting to hear from those death penalty and animal rights advocates...