Claims of absolute cultural difference merely displace older Orientalist slogans

Evidence

This myth of pure difference is the displacement of an old slogan, after all: “East is East…” et cetera. Or is the “imagination” of new maps in the name of decolonization or the New World Order too crucial an enterprise for it to be exposed to serious intellectual investigation? — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 2172

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s inquiry: the strategic claiming of ‘India is India / US is US’ pure difference risks falling back into the old ‘East is East’ essentialism Spivak elsewhere problematizes. — connects to: Cultural superiority toward foreigners predated and transcended Western Orientalism — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 625; Policy jargon like modernization and stability masks old Orientalist stereotypes

Broader Connections

• Policy jargon like modernization and stability masks old Orientalist stereotypes #exemplifies (0.85)
• Cultural superiority toward foreigners predated and transcended Western Orientalism #complicates (0.80) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 625