Orientalism is a term that is used by art historians, literary and cultural studies

scholars for the imitation or depiction of aspects in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and
East Asian cultures (Eastern cultures).
the term "Orientalism" to refer to a general patronizing Western attitude towards
Middle Eastern, Asian and North African societies. In Said's analysis, the West
essentializes these societies as static and undevelopedthereby fabricating a view
of Oriental culture that can be studied, depicted, and reproduced. Implicit in this
fabrication, writes Said, is the idea that Western society is developed, rational,
flexible, and superior
"Orientalism" refers to the Orient or East,[3] in contrast to the Occident or West
"Orientalism" is widely used in art to refer to the works of the many Western 19thcentury artists, who specialized in "Oriental" subjects, often drawing on their travels
to Western Asia.

Orientalism is not to mock East Asian cultures, although it can

certainly contribute to or culminate in the mockery of East Asian
cultures.
Orientalism is, in a nutshell, the way that the West perceives of
and thereby defines the East.
the West is the Occident: the norm, the standard, the centre, the
fixed point around which the rest of the world orbits. The East is, by
contrast, the Orient: the abnormal, the exotic, the foreign, the
Other defined specifically by its deviancy from the Occidental,
Western norm.
Asia becomes innately unusual, alien, and beastly. In Orientalism,
Asia is not defined by what Asia is; rather, Asia becomes an
Otherized fiction of everything the West is not, and one that
primarily serves to reinforce the Wests own moral conception of
itself.
the most important aspect of Orientalism is how it defined Asian
men and women against the Western norms of gender identity.
Asian women became hypersexualized, unsatiable, creatures in
one Medieval text described as standing thirteen feet tall and
having ox-tails emerging from their genitals, whereas described by
Marco Polo as either dainty courtesans or voracious prostitutes
whereas Asian men are portrayed as slight, stooping, meek and
unassertive barbarians who attack in faceless hordes to make up for
their easy defeat in single combat by European men.