Orientalist
Americanadjective
noun
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a person who studies the languages, literature, etc., of Asia, especially Eastern Asia.
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a person who holds exoticizing or stereotypical views of Asia and its peoples or cultures.
Example Sentences
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He added that the current debate helps move the museum “away from its Orientalist roots.”
From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2020
Don’t we want to push past the “we-they,” “self and other” discourses characteristic of the Western-dominated centuries — the Orientalist centuries, we might say?
From Salon • Apr. 28, 2019
In this respect, the adventurer and Orientalist Richard Francis Burton was an exception.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2019
In his Nice period paintings, when he was most under the influence of Manet, he painted and drew models in Orientalist modes.
From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2018
To these was added—for he deserves a sentence to himself—an Orientalist of world-wide reputation.
From Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies by Jacks, L. P.
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