Orientals themselves have adopted Orientalist frameworks and applied them to their own cultures.

Evidence

I would like to contend that such applications, not only did take place but are continuing on a fairly wide scale. Furthermore, falling in the temptations against which Said has warned engenders what may be called Orientalism in Reverse. — Sadik Jalal al-‘Azm, Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse, 112

Categorization

• SEED: The concept of ‘Orientalism in Reverse’ — colonized peoples internalizing and redeploying the colonizer’s own stereotypes about them — is a strong essay/article angle on internalized colonial epistemology.
• DEFINE: Introduces and names the core concept of the entire essay, ‘Orientalism in Reverse’.

Related

• Reverse Orientalism mirrors colonial scholarship’s errors while adding secondhand distance from reality. (similarity 0.90)
• Orientalism functions as a self-enclosed Western text rather than knowledge of an actual Orient. (similarity 0.86)
• Non-Western receptions of foreign cultures reproduce the same reductive dynamics Said attributes to Orientalism. (similarity 0.85)
• Rebutting Orientalism with reverse essentialism would reproduce the same intellectual failure. (similarity 0.85)
• Said traces imperial conquest back to centuries-old Western habits of representing the Orient (similarity 0.85)
• Orientalism is studied via its internal consistency, not its correspondence to a real Orient (similarity 0.84)
• Orientalism persists by being internalized by the Orient itself and by new imperialism (similarity 0.84)
• Orientalist texts functioned as blueprints for material re-creation, not just misrepresentation (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalist representations operate for purposes within specific historical and economic settings (similarity 0.83)
• Sympathetic Orientalists distort Eastern thought by forcing it into Western frames (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalists claimed authority to reconstruct Eastern traditions without consulting Easterners (similarity 0.83)
• Western cultural discourse about the Orient is a formidable structure of domination. (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalism is a microcosm of a modernity that structurally requires colonialism and genocide. (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalism is only the visible tip of a larger modern structure. (similarity 0.82)
• Critique of Orientalism must begin with on-the-ground colonial practice, not texts (similarity 0.82)