Breaking Barriers: Acceptance of Exoticization In her essay “Just off Main Street‚” published by the United States Department of State‚ Elmaz Abinader stresses the importance of embracing cultural differences. Abinader precisely describes her struggles as an Arab-American attempting to stay true to her two worlds: the American society and her Lebanese culture. As an Armenian I can directly relate to almost every instance Abinader depicts throughout her essay. Abinader’s words and descriptions clearly
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Doing Business in the Middle East The western businesses that try to succeed in the Middle East face a lot of disappointments in each aspect of business. The main reason is that Western business leaders do not understand that the Middle East is different from the Western business environment in every single way. There are cultural differences that cannot be neglected. In order to start doing business successfully the Western businesses need to stop looking at business from the Western point of
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Chapter 15 – Reading and Study Guide The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia A. Identification – State in your own words what each of the following terms means and why it is significant to a study of world history. Those terms with an asterisk may be defined in the glossary. Xuanzang Yang Jian Sui Yangdi Tang Taizong An Lushan Huange Chao Du Fu Song Taizu Li Bo Zhu Xi Murasaki Shikibu Sui Grand Canal Tang Chang’an Equal-field System Bureaucracy of merit Middle Kingdom Uighurs Song Khitan Jurchen Foot
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Beatriz Domingues Professor Buckley TRDA 2191W 05 February 2013 Research Paper Abstract The objective of this research paper is to analyze Marius Petipa’s work‚ La Bayadere‚ through the Historical lens of Orientalism. This choice stems from my personal interest in how historical and economical development affected a culture’s perspective of another. La Bayadere is set in India however it is evident that the movements and images performed in this ballet piece are not based on ethnographic knowledge
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Edward Saïd stated‚ “The West—as I see it—has no idea what the East is actually like. They just came up with a bunch of ideas ("representations") and then ran with them." In Western culture‚ most children are raised to believe that the Western way of life is the best way of life‚ which can be described as an ethnocentric perspective. The less developed or progressive countries are classified under “The East‚” and the more developed are classified as “The West.” This creates a binary way of looking
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Eduardo Ramirez Villamizar was born in Colombia and he went to the Nacional University of Bogota to study architecture. He started to make sculptures around 1960. Ramirez is influenced by his memory of pre Columbian art. Ramirez made the 3D art Recuerdo de Machu Picchu no.3 (Las terrazas) in 1984 and now it is located at the Museum of Fine Arts‚ Houston. Ramirez used oxidized iron to make the sculpture. This sculpture captivated my attention because I did not know what it was. My first impression
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Kelley O’Toole Professor Goldstein CWL 412 21 March 2013 Paquita and Oriental Art The “feminine” in the novella The Girl with the Golden Eyes is most exemplified in Paquita. Her femininity is desired by many of the characters because she exudes all things associated with the Orient – decadence‚ sensuality‚ indolence‚ femininity‚ and brutality (in her death). These qualities are not part of Western culture as Balzac says‚ “it is only in the Orient that the human race presents a magnificent feature”
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A brief summary of “Occidentalism: A Short History of Anti-Westernism” by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit A brief summary of “Occidentalism: A Short History of Anti-Westernism” by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit The authors‚ through their book: “Occidentalism: A history of Anti-Westernism” tried to give explanation to anti-western attitudes. The book discusses an disturbing thinking that imagines the West to be devoid of any virtues‚ believes that it is the symbol of sins and
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Characteristics Of Orientalism‚ Prejudice‚ and Discrimination Many people confuse Arabs and Muslims as interchangeable people or religions‚ when in fact they are quite different meanings. An Arab is someone who is born in a land that relates to Arabian culture. In other words‚ Arab is an ethnicity or race. Muslim‚ on the other hand‚ relates to someone who follows the teaching of Islam. Therefore‚ where Arab is a race‚ Muslim is a religion. To put it into perspective‚ think of it as saying that
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the latter sense by James G. Carrier in his book Occidentalism: Images of the West (1995)‚ and subsequently by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit in their book Occidentalism: the West in the Eyes of its Enemies (2004). The term is an inversion of Orientalism‚ Edward Said’s label for stereotyped Western views of the East. A number of earlier books had also used the term‚ sometimes with different meanings‚ such as Chen Xiaomei’s Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China (New York:
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