occidentalism
English edit
Etymology edit
occidental + -ism
Noun edit
occidentalism (uncountable)
- The habits and attitudes of westerners.
- 2001, Shumei Shi, The Lure of the Modern:
- Giving full agency to the Chinese Occidentalists, she argues that Occidentalism was a discourse used within the context of domestic politics in post-Mao China as a “strategy of liberation" and a counterdiscourse to the government's ideological domination […]