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Orientalism by Edward Said
Arguments for orientalism
The book positions orientalism by defining the historical path of oriental sectors in the
east and presented by the writer from the west regarding the eastern cultures. (Said) These
Eastern cultures include cultural and literary studies, descriptions that are concerned with the
prospects the practices in the East Asian region, Middle Eastern region and the South Asian
region. This term is mainly used in these description by the scholars in the study of art, imitations
and historians. The depictions that are involved in this articulation are positioned to the writers in
art and historical depictions, artists and the designers. However, these entities involved in the
depictions are mainly from the west. In relation to the book, “Orientalism,” by Edward Said,
there is a depiction of the aspect of orienting and relativities to ideologies that are involved.
These relativities project the available aspects, which are combined with the ideologies of the
involved designers, writers or artists to come up with particular explanations. (mashrabiyya)
This study projects the arguments and the counter arguments of the aspect of orientalism.
Orientalism in this book is depicted on the study of the political and historical inceptions,
alongside the cultural views of the east. The implemented study and ideologies that are related in
the book project the induction in the west. The concerns of every aspect are therefore pointed out
on the aspects of political, cultural and historical aspects of the east. The traces are formidable to
the west and positions of their denomination to the west. This is regardless of the practical

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essence of the practices with relation to politics as the binding factor of the historical relations.
(Gordon et al.)
There is no negativity that is projected on the adoptions of orientalism. This is because a
larger percentage of the practices that depict orientalism in the book are bound to be positive.
The writer is pleased and happy with the achievements of the westerners in the east. These
arguments are positioned to a valued esteem that is dependent on the most appropriate depictions
of truth. He relates to the Eastern as the land that belongs to his ancestors. This implies that the
east is one area that is renowned with historical traces to the west and is still being adopted to the
present. The practices in the west are therefore part of the aspects he considered part of the
people of the west. This is however not what most of the individuals in the west advocate for.