occidentalist

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

occidental +‎ -ist

Noun[edit]

occidentalist (plural occidentalists)

  1. One who studies occidental languages.
  2. A person who favours Western ideas or customs.
    • 2001, Shumei Shi, The Lure of the Modern:
      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 […]
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