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shewhohashope  , as it contains both relevant links and quotes, and an intelligent addressing of Orientalism: Academic study and appropriation of cultural artifacts by those outside the culture in question can be damaging in itself, as the meanings placed on practices and artifacts of marginalised cultures by dominant cultures can have wider distribution and greater legitimacy than those created by people within the original context, and even become the dominant interpretations within that original context. ... While I'm not denying that orientalists were "smitten" with Eastern cultures, I am saying That Are Their feelings irrelevant. Using one's feelings and Desires as an excuse to shield oneself from Criticism is a pastime of the privileged. How can one Be one Enjoys criticised for What? Very easily. Taste not does spring, fully-formed from nothingness, We Are All cultures shaped by the We Are Immersed in, and They teach us to Be What is valued, and in Which Circumstances.