Western cultural discourse about the Orient is a formidable structure of domination.

Evidence

For students of literature and criticism, Orientalism offers a marvelous instance of the interrelations between society, history, and textuality; moreover, the cultural role played by the Orient in the West connects Orientalism with ideology, politics, and the logic of power, matters of relevance, I think, to the literary community. … My hope is to illustrate the formidable structure of cultural domination and, specifically for formerly colonized peoples, the dangers and temptations of employing this structure upon themselves or upon others. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 94

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that colonized peoples can turn the structure of domination upon themselves anticipates the self-Orientalization debates that later Islamophobia critiques engage. — connects to: Western scholars controlled the academic study of the Orient even as late as 1927.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 94