Orientalismo

"How can one today speak of "Western civilization" except as in large measure an ideological fiction, implying a sort of detached superiority for a handful of values and ideas, none of which has much meaning outside the history of conquest, immigration, travel and the mingling of peoples that gave the Western nations their present mixed identities?"

no final do livro 'Orientalismo', considerado fundamental no estudo deste tema, de Edward Said.
(não sabia que o grande Mimesis de Auerbach tinha sido escrito em Istanbul)
o Orientalismo todo aqui.