Cultural domination persists through the colonized’s own consent, not force alone

Evidence

There are all kinds of other indications of how the cultural domination is maintained, as much by Oriental consent as by direct and crude economic pressure from the United States. It is sobering to find, for instance, that while there are dozens of organizations in the United States for studying the Arab and Islamic Orient, there are none in the Orient itself for studying the United States, by far the greatest economic and political influence in the region. Worse, there are scarcely any institutes of even modest stature in the Orient devoted to study of the Orient. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 822

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concrete instance of Gramsci’s hegemony: the Orient’s own institutional absence of self-study and of studying the colonizer sustains the unequal knowledge relationship.
• XREF: Directly scaffolds the Islamophobia readings on hegemony and construction of the Other that build on Orientalism. — connects to: A comfortable, willing population can still be enslaved by its instrumentality — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 187; Cultural domination by the master, not material scarcity, explains oppression — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 723; Domination persists wherever cultural and institutional safeguards are absent, not only under explicit tyranny — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 318
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 822