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A paper which looks at the phenomena of orientalism and globalisation with particular reference to the concepts of Self and Other, and the role of the media in promoting the dominant ideology on a global scale. Bibliography lists 2 sources
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and globalisation could be said to depend very much on ones own perception and ones cultural starting-point: the definition of what is Self and what is Other is invariably a
subjective one no matter how much globalisation might be assumed to homogenise cultural differences. If one considers, for example, the image of the Orient as delineated through Occidental eyes, it
is warped and distorted in comparison to the Orients own self-identity. Said (1980) sees this as a result of cultural filtering over a period of centuries: all elements of Oriental
culture as seen in the West are not so much a direct transmission of that culture, but rather a version of it which is selected and defined through Western ideals
and values. Said
maintains that in the course of historical interactions between East and West, Westerners would identify those parts of Eastern culture which they found both exotic and socially acceptable, and define
artefacts and practices according to those parameters. Consequently, that which was seen as alien but also aesthetically or socially pleasing would be constructed as identifying the culture as a whole:
anything which did not fit into that perspective was either ignored or discarded as being atypical. From the Western point of view, there would develop an idea of the East
which was not accurate, but which represented what the West thought the East ought to be like, and which formed the basis for the discourse between the two cultures.
As Said
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