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  1. “[Academics] use the term ‘Orientalism’ to refer to a general patronizing Western attitude…. In Said’s analysis, the West essentializes these societies as static and undeveloped—thereby fabricating a view of Oriental culture that can be studied, depicted, and reproduced.”🤦‍♂️ @HirokoTabuchi/1121039738251640832