Exoticism

The line we push, especially our chapter on exoticism, is that the counterculture sees technology as a homogenizing force, and is afraid of that. ❋ Unknown (2005)

And then this exoticism is shrink-wrapped and packed and sold right back to an Asian audience. ❋ Sharon Bakar (2004)

Underlying these eighteenth - and nineteenth-century visual images of the East's exoticism is the impulse to preserve the reassuring sameness found in any representation of difference. ❋ Unknown (2000)

During the campaign, Obama's "exoticism" - both real (his childhood in Jakarta) and imagined ❋ Unknown (2008)

Both types of people were highly admired for one reason or the other but what one might call exoticism is very different from primitivism. ❋ GEORGE BOAS (1968)

The allure of the latter location (s) brought Gérôme into his most famous - perhaps infamous - body of work, capitalizing on Orientalisme, the French taste for the "exoticism" of the Middle East and the Maghreb. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The allure of the latter location (s) brought Gérôme into his most famous - perhaps infamous - body of work, capitalizing on Orientalisme, the French taste for the "exoticism" of the Middle East and the Maghreb. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The issue with the former cover is that it unintentionally reinforced the meme -- that Obama is an Agent on The War Against Terror or, if you prefer, to allow his "exoticism" as a proxy for any remaining legacy of racist bias. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A tongue-in-cheek way to reflect their 'exoticism'? ❋ Der Alte Fritz (2008)

He calls it "exoticism", intended to attract Western readers. ❋ As'ad (2008)

The word "exoticism" sooner evokes associations with the things I see here in Morocco — palm trees, minarets, camels — than with a seemingly plain yellow Dutch sign. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A couple of soundbites from the interview regarding cultural identity and "exoticism": ❋ Sharon Bakar (2005)

And although the setting for each story is Thailand, Lapcharoensap steers well clear of the kind of exoticism that bedevils most South-East Asian literature. ❋ Sharon Bakar (2005)

It is thus not a question of a folkloristic reproduction, a kind of exoticism, but an independent and co-operative work. ❋ Unknown (1986)

Although I applaud the law enforcement for the bust, I find this kind of exoticism unhelpful and it says a lot about the level of inter-cultural awareness the police has about a very sizable and sometimes prominent ethnic community in the region. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Person A: “I practice Christianity. What religion do you practice?” Person B: Practice? The hell you mean “practice”? I don’t practice my religion. I advance in my religion which is called “Exoticism” and people like me are [Tiger] Lovers and are advocates for justice which is why we want that bitch, [Carole Baskin] in prison for [murdering] her husband.” ❋ AnarchoDyke (2020)

A number of mathematical purists (or spiritually inclined number theorists) secretly love to [exoticizing pi] when they [let loose] of their personal or societal [inhibitions]—when they desire to be in that so-called state of “pi nirvana.” ❋ Fasters (2022)