Orientalism

[Raeanne Dimick]

Any system, doctrine, custom, expression, etc.,
peculiar to Oriental people.

[Luis Fok]

Study of Asian or [Eastern] history, culture, and people, from a [Western] [perspective].

[Gregory]

Exoticization or fetishization of [East Asian] culture. The [disease] that asiaphiles [suffer] from.

[Michiko]

Style, artefacts, or traits considered characteristic of the peoples and cultures of Asia.

[Dianne]

Western ideas about the Middle East and about East and Southeast Asia, especially ideas that are too simple or not accurate about these societies being mysterious, never changing, or not able to develop in a modern way without Western help