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Characteristics Of Orientalism

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Orientalism is the study of the Orient (previously India and Bible land until the early nineteenth century) or the East by Westerners which portray them (Orients) as if they are different from the West (Said E. 1977 : 1). That difference portrays the (Orients) as inferior from the Westerners putting images of the East as exotic, undeveloped, problematic, uncivilised and treating the people as subjects. Orientalism perpetuates Western dominance. (Said E. 1977 : 3) Orientalism is “thought based upon an ontological and epistemological distinction made between the “orient” and (most of the time) “the Occident.” (Said E. 1977 : 2). Orientalism leads to othering which is simply portraying the Orients as ‘others’ and as something different from the …show more content…

This therefore leads to Western novelists, theorists, poets promoting the distinction or difference between the East and West and creating theories, social descriptions between them and the Orient. (Said E. 1977 : 21). Orientalism depends for its strategy on a flexible superior position. (Said E. 1977 : 59). Orientalism is a distribution of geopolitical awareness into political, sociological, historical texts. Said also believes that orientalism is more particularly valuable as a sign of European-Atlantic power over the Orient than it is as a veridic discourse about the Orient. (Said E. 1977 : …show more content…

Those explores are therefore responsible for setting the tone and relationship between the East and the West. Said argues that these early images seemed to occasion what came after them that being administrative control and political control of the East. No effort was made to understand the cultural divide between West and the East, this lack of understanding made Westerners believe that their own way of life was simply better than that of the East and therefore it should be taught to Easterners. Many Eastern countries became colonies of the West and then this idea increased. Said believes that many current Orientalists maintain most of these views. (Said E. 1977 :

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