Name: オリエンタリズムと権力。いつになったら人をステレオタイプにするのをやめるのか？| BBCのアイデア (Orientalism and power: When will we stop stereotyping people? | BBC Ideas)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:54:03.000Z
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to describe how Europeans portray the orient

as inferior, uncivilised and all around weird.

But importantly, Said argued this was also, simultaneously,

about defining Europe as the orient's opposite -

superior, civilised and all around wonderful.

The actual term 'the orient' refers to the rising of the sun in the east

So we can think of orientalism as Eastern-ism

Orientalism then, is the form of knowledge, in quotation marks,

that authorises and justifies the assertion of Western power

Orientalism acts like a pair of glasses that distort your vision

and exaggerate cultural and religious differences.

just about everything and everyone seems highly exotic and strange

you might have seen men portrayed as exotically romantic

or more recently as crazy and fanatical, a terrorist,

and miss all the ordinary human beings along the way.

Many Arabs, Muslims and Asians embrace this controversial term

to describe the unique kind of racism they experience.

how their culture, religion and ethnicity

causing their humanity to be overlooked and culture misunderstood.

Isn't this just a form of stereotyping then?

Orientalism is about a much broader set of power relations.

When the US government views the Middle East

it creates policies with far-reaching consequences.

From outright war waged on other countries

to imposing a travel ban on whole groups of people.

Perhaps the trickiest thing about orientalism

is that it's not fuelled by ignorance or a simple lack of knowledge,

It has historically been produced as knowledge

whether government officials, religious figures, or the media.

we can't allow people coming into this country

who have this hated for the United States."

He effectively characterised the 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide

orientalism continues because it is so ingrained

in how we see other peoples and cultures that it goes unnoticed.

Even the term, 'The Middle East' is considered to be orientalist,

because it standardises a Western viewpoint

by referring to West Asia and North Africa as the middle of the East.

Much of what counts as knowledge about the Middle East

is still produced through those distorting and reductive glasses.

And just like in the 18th and 19th Centuries,

orientalism remains powerful because it shapes,

not just how people in the West view the East,

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