Kissinger, Orientalism and the Other
7 min readEuropeans preferred to take refuge in their preconceptions of an East "distant in time and space", seeing it as a world apart, not progressed, barbaric, which needs help to be accompanied toward progress and cultural enlightenment, represented by European culture.
As Edward Said explained, "both traditional orientalists and Kissinger conceive the difference between cultures, firstly, as a kind of front line along which they oppose each other. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Batoul Chamas)
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