Status Updates From Orientalism

Orientalists conceive of the differences between cultures as 1) "creating a battlefront that separates them" and 2) "as inviting the West to control, contain, and otherwise govern (through superior knowledge and accommodating power) the Other"(47-48 ).

The only culture the "West" has is based on homicidal violence and rape. Just look at the West's pedophilic beauty standards too

The chapter about how travellers perceived Orient seemed one of the most interesting ones to me in a whole book. Even sex with Oriental people had its own image . The author also draws the distinction between British and French Orientalism .