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How far is too far in exotified, graphic, disturbing portrayals of women?
How far is too far in exotified, graphic, disturbing portrayals of women? - Feministing 2008
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I found it maddening how he exotified Islam and the Middle East, using "Allah," saying that "we have a bowl of tubule when it comes to terrorist groups in the Middle East," throwing Arabic words in here and there to make him sound like he really knew what he was talking about, and calling Lebanon "The Old Country."
Thursday, December 08, 2005 As'ad 2005
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I found it maddening how he exotified Islam and the Middle East, using "Allah," saying that "we have a bowl of tubule when it comes to terrorist groups in the Middle East," throwing Arabic words in here and there to make him sound like he really knew what he was talking about, and calling Lebanon "The Old Country."
Saturday, December 31, 2005 As'ad 2005
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Or Three (Sangeng 三更, "Around Midnight"), a collection of short ghost stories from three different East Asian countries (the Korean and Chinese ones are great; the intermediate Thai one not so much; too exotified for my taste).
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I just have two caveats with that: One is that it's done with respect, and two, that the person asking me is willing to answer the question themselves and that it's not that I'm some exotified specimen that's just to be asked questions to.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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I just have two caveats with that: One is that it's done with respect, and two, that the person asking me is willing to answer the question themselves and that it's not that I'm some exotified specimen that's just to be asked questions to.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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I can't tell you how excited I am about this book because of it's unabashed darkness, which seems the best antecedent to the glut of over-exotified Chinese American New America Now radio, Li responds to a question about her subject matter by talking about Toni Morrison: "I don't think it's a writer's role to broadcast or represent a country.
Hyphen Blog 2009
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