Occidentalist
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who studies occidental languages.
- 2 A person who favours Western ideas or customs.
"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 […]"
Example
More examples"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 + -ist.
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