Friday, April 5, 2019

Orientalism with Today's Culture

Unfortunately, I believe the world has a Eurocentric mindset which causes the world to revolve around one ideology. The way we view the world is the from where Europe is located, the West, the East, Middle East, Orient. It's frustrating seeing how the Western world views Orientalism. If people want to understand what occurs in the middle East they look to what was written previously, and that view is always skewed. Then if people want to view it on their own, they'll visit it for themselves, except with preconceived views of what's happening. This mindset is hard to eradicate only because it's been shaped around our society so much. I feel that if the world continues to communicate different views throughout, and not solely from television episodes or movies, real life events or situations, the Orientalist view could be changed.

2 comments:

  1. I completely agree with you! It's hard to dismantle stereotypes when they were built so solidly with the intention to be the one and only version of the story.

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  2. I agree with your points in the way that society and people shape how different cultures are viewed and perceived

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