exoticize

/ ɪgˈzɒtɪˌsaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) to regard or present as exotic

Example Sentences

Because, you see, Won is never just playing basketball; he’s simultaneously playing an exhausting game designed by White people to idealize him, dismiss him and exoticize him while he dutifully pretends he doesn’t see color.

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If they over-complicate or even exoticize dishes that aren't British or distinctly European, why wouldn't they?

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But he refuses to exoticize local quirks in the way of Herodotus and his ilk.

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Together, Bolognesi and the Yanomami have crafted a film that reveals their largely unseen world while refusing to exoticize the indigenous group.

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The French also have a persistent fascination with the exotic: Paul Gauguin’s paintings of Tahitian life, books like “Madame Chrysanthème” by Pierre Loti, lists of “exotic” Parisian restaurants — through the prism of French cuisine’s dominance, it’s no wonder that we still exoticize food, particularly food from places the French colonized, including areas of Africa and Asia.

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