Occidentalism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The habits and attitudes of westerners. uncountable

    "Giving full agency to the Chinese Occidentalists, she argues that Occidentalism was a discourse used within the context of domestic politics in post-Mao China as a “strategy of liberation" and a counterdiscourse to the government's ideological domination […]"

  2. 2
    the quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Western civilizations wordnet
  3. 3
    the scholarly knowledge of western cultures and languages and people wordnet

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westernism

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"Giving full agency to the Chinese Occidentalists, she argues that Occidentalism was a discourse used within the context of domestic politics in post-Mao China as a “strategy of liberation" and a counterdiscourse to the government's ideological domination […]"

Etymology

From occidental + -ism.

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