• purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    16 days ago

    I thought that framing eastern things as though they are reflections of western things is Occidentalizing, and treating them as totally alien and mysterious is Orientalizing, so it’s sort of a spectrum where appropriate behavior is in the middle and the two negative practices are on the extremes. At least, that’s what I was taught, there are probably many different definitions and I admit that it’s not really my field . . .