Orientalism persists by being internalized by the Orient itself and by new imperialism

Evidence

And yet despite its failures, its lamentable jargon, its scarcely concealed racism, its paper-thin intellectual apparatus, Orientalism flourishes today in the forms I have tried to describe. Indeed, there is some reason for alarm in the fact that its influence has spread to “the Orient” itself: the pages of books and journals in Arabic (and doubtless in Japanese, various Indian dialects, and other Oriental languages) are filled with second-order analyses by Arabs of “the Arab mind,” “Islam,” and other myths. Orientalism has also spread in the United States now that Arab money and resources have added considerable glamour to the traditional “concern” felt for the strategically important Orient. The fact is that Orientalism has been successfully accommodated to the new imperialism, where its ruling paradigms do not contest, and even confirm, the continuing imperial design to dominate Asia. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 819

Categorization

• XREF: The internalization of the colonizer’s categories by the colonized is the same mechanism Gramsci’s hegemony describes — colonial psychology/racialized selfhood readings will extend this. — connects to: Postwar postcolonial critiques transformed Orientalism’s meaning from scholarship into ideology of empire
• SEED: An essay could trace how imperial paradigms survive accommodation to new powers — the mechanism by which a critique’s own object renews itself under fresh dominance.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 819