ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Occidentalism

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Occidentalism is a noun meaning The habits and attitudes of westerners.

Meaning

The habits and attitudes of westerners.

Example Sentences

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 […]

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include orientalism, occidentalist, occidentotropism, westernism, antiwesternism, eurocentrism.

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