Orientalism

A university thesis describes the "Orientalism" that imbues sci-fi in the West.

Some intellectuals venture to say that sci-fi films and literature are fuzzily impacts of Orientalism. For some Westerners, looking at a sci-fi film or reading a sci-fi book resembles an adventure into the Orient. For the Westerner, it is the Self versus the Other. James Alexander Brown wrote his dissertation "American Science Fiction Cinema, Orientalism, Self & Other" to expound on just that sentimentality in the West.

To all of this new, strange music, Liszt and Chopin added the wonderful tracery of orientalism.

Born in the Philippines, I had the nickname Nonong, as my family intuitively knew that Orientalism imbued me from childhood. I grew up with the official name Victor like an Occidental in Batangas, Quezon City, and Lulu Island. Though I was nominally a Roman Catholic at birth, Buddha statues and wild bison attracted me as a child. Today, I am a Syncretist, but chiefly a Buddhist-Animist, and I believe in Science. I know that Buddhism is an advanced psychology and that biology can explain Animism. Of Buddhist kinds, I have encountered Zen from Japanese, Theravāda from Thais, and Pure Land from Chinese. Red Indians, Shintoists, Daoists, Oz Aborigines, Eskimos, Pacific Islanders, and other indigenous peoples have imbued my Animistic thoughts.

Some Japanese joke that I'm in "Liverpool." Many of them consider my English more British than American. I think that some Japanese fantasize marrying whites, as did my high school classmate Derek M. of Japanese ancestry. English is something that Japanese now learn from about Grade 5, age 10. But I think that English in Japan is something like French in BC. The English are looked upon as a highly progressive group, despite being known for being snooty or even rude. If people knew me, they would know that I find more wealth in learning Australian Aboriginal languages or Amerindian languages. I have a different view of "wealth" from other people. I find more enjoyment in Latino languages such as Spanish, French, Portuguese, Catalan, Italian, Chabacano, Esperanto, and Interlingua, all of which I do know in varying degrees. English is not my preference, as I do find it ordinary. I delve into Orientalism, as Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese. Esperanto and Lojban increasingly encapsulate my varied rainbow interests of the East and West.

Some Japanese joke that I'm in "Liverpool." Many of them consider my English more British than American. I think that some Japanese fantasize marrying whites, as did my high school classmate Derek M. of Japanese ancestry. English is something that Japanese now learn from about Grade 5, age 10. But I think that English in Japan is something like French in BC. The English are looked upon as a highly progressive group, despite being known for being snooty or even rude. If people knew me, they would know that I find more wealth in learning Australian Aboriginal languages or Amerindian languages. I have a different view of "wealth" from other people. I find more enjoyment in Latino languages such as Spanish, French, Portuguese, Catalan, Italian, Chabacano, Esperanto, and Interlingua, all of which I do know in varying degrees. English is not my preference, as I do find it ordinary. I delve into Orientalism, as Japanese, Korean, HongKongese, Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese. Esperanto and Lojban increasingly encapsulate my varied rainbow interests of the East and West.