occidentalism

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English

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Etymology

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From occidental +‎ -ism.

Noun

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occidentalism (uncountable)

  1. The habits and attitudes of westerners.
    • 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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