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Orientalism
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There's this literary theory called "Orientalism" by Ed Said. The Eastern/Asian/Oriental is perceived through a European lens as "Other". So they are somehow, "opposites" - even though, in your experi…
> I've seen Asian fever in all parts of the political spectrum but I would argue that it's more on the left both right and left have it, but you do bring up this very interesting point. the right see…
Exactly. I remember seeing a research where Korean men today are a foot taller than their grandparents (who faced famine). And - anecdotally - I'm (grew up in America) more than 6 inches taller than…
Ethnocentrism and Orientalism is still so prevalent in education and academics. It dissuades second and third generation Asian Americans from embracing their own culture.
It's been a popular meme on Tiktok where non-Chinese people were romanticizing things that they see as Chinese like wearing slippers or drinking hot water and saying that they're "in a chinese time in…
Orientalism but also because nothing in American culture helps with things these are a response to.
Yeah there's certainly an element of orientalism but I don't it can be reduced to that. It doesn't feel that different in character to the obsession with Danish "hygge". It's helpful to have a label f…
A lot of people would like a slower pace of life, and find consumer culture wasteful. Terms like wabi sabi and kintsugi give them a historical precedent for their instincts. Scandinavian concepts like…
The Spanish have been trading in Asia a century or two before the British, they've been there since the 1500s. The Phillipines was the trading post they used to exchange silver from Potosi for silks a…