Orientalism is a book written by Edward Said, the ‘father' of post-colonialism. He is also called as ‘A man of controversy', where his writings influenced many theories, activists, and also changed most of post-colonial studies of the Middle East in the United State and Europe drastically, especially in literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, and comparative religion studies. His writings have been translated into 26 languages, receives lots of review including critics and enthusiasts
1. Introduction In the past, other countries had a common stereotype about Saudi Arabia, which was either living rich or desert people. Nowadays Saudi Arabia has a vision of 2030 for its future, that will definitely change the Saudi stereotypes in the world. While graphic design is a wide field it will be the way that helps to change the stereotype. Image manipulation is a creative technique that has taken an interest in the field of graphic design, it is about creating a new and different image
Orientalism and Asian Americans The United States of America was founded and occupies by a group of immigrants from other countries and has rich and variety of people who migrate and move to and from the United States from all over the country. Among those types of people are the people from the East land known as the “orient”. Some of the biggest issues that the United States has had in the past is a sense of racism to the Asian American community. What seems to be clear in society today is that
it be the Americas, Africa or Asia. Eurocentricism suggests that something is acceptable (like 'modernity' or 'culturally progressive', 'civilized' etc.) only if it is in line with the Western perspectives. The objective of acultural theory or Orientalism is derived from this ideology. The West had the Imperial power to define the history of the East or the 'Rest of World'. They used this imperial power or hegemony to show that they are superior to all other cultural groups or civilizations. The
Jean Leon Gerome was a famous French painter and sculptor during the 19th century. He was known for his beautifully detailed paintings of the many places he traveled, from Egypt, the Mediterranean and Asia. His style of painting was a combination of Neoclassicism and Romanticism that where vibrant figurative depictions of his travels. Art historians label his artistic expression as Academicism and Oriental because he had a French standardized way of painting ornate foreign everyday life. The compelling
occupying the territories before the Europeans’ arrival in the 17th century. As of the 2011 census, they comprise 4.3% of the population. Moreover, they are currently 634 First Nations governments recognized by the Canadian government. The colonization of Canada by France and Britain led to large-scale assimilation policies, mainly illustrated by the Canadian Indian Residential School System. Implemented during the 19th century, residential schools were meant to “kill the Indian in the child”, i