Advanced cultures only offered racism and imperialism for dealing with other cultures

Evidence

It is therefore correct that every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was consequently a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric. Some of the immediate sting will be taken out of these labels if we recall additionally that human societies, at least the more advanced cultures, have rarely offered the individual anything but imperialism, racism, and ethnocentrism for dealing with “other” cultures. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 510

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s scaffolding theme of colonial psychology and racialized selfhood — the mechanisms by which modernity’s default stance toward the other is othering.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 510