Orientalist typing subsumed individual traits under a presumed Oriental essence.

Evidence

We have remarked how, during the nineteenth century in such writers as Renan, Lane, Flaubert, Caussin de Perceval, Marx, and Lamartine, a generalization about “the Orient” drew its power from the presumed representativeness of everything Oriental; each particle of the Orient told of its Orientalness, so much so that the attribute of being Oriental overrode any countervailing instance. An Oriental man was first an Oriental and only second a man. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 584

Categorization

• XREF: This radical representative-typing mechanism is the same logic later deployed in Islamophobia readings: a Muslim is first a Muslim, only second an individual. Carries directly into how anti-Muslim discourse reduces persons to a single religious marker. — connects to: Cromer characterized Orientals as inherently deficient in logic — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 337
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 584