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legalmoose ([personal profile] legalmoose) wrote2004-09-14 07:59 am
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While out looking for Chinese language e-books (damn few, if any, out there, at least that I've found in my very limited searching thus far), I was dismayed to see that Orientalism (i.e., objectification of the Orient as someplace which is populated with peoples 'mysterious and incrutable') is alive and well in modern fiction in 'Merica. I thought we had killed off that particular line of thinking?
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[identity profile] kanzeon-2040.livejournal.com 2004-09-14 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think lines of thinking are ever killed off.

[identity profile] ironmanjt.livejournal.com 2004-09-14 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
Nah, they're just condemned to Middle Amerika.
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[personal profile] legalmoose 2004-09-14 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
'Tis a shame. Would be nice if we actually -learned- from history...

We need to drag more folks to DC to the Japanese-American WW2 memorial, et al....

[identity profile] kanzeon-2040.livejournal.com 2004-09-15 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Those of us who learn from history are doomed to watch others repeat it.
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[personal profile] legalmoose 2004-09-14 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Which part of StL are you in? I was spoiled being in U-City and on WashU's campus when I was there...
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