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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The company both democratized a luxury good, making it more attainable, and whitewashed the product, creating an American-made “Oriental” rug that replaced an Orientalist fantasy with a technological one.
From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2021
“Aladdin” exists today only because of the 18th-century Orientalist Antoine Galland.
From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2019
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
An Orientalist by his studies, he travelled in Egypt and Syria, desiring to investigate the origins of ancient religions, and reported what he had seen in colourless but exact description.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund
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