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  • verb Alternative spelling of exoticize.

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Examples

  • Until cis people accept us for the human beings we are, without feeling the need to tokenise, exoticise and objectify us, then such policies will continue to be needed.

    Procter & Gamble bars trans discrimination 2009

  • Both in the way you stereotype and try to hit on every white woman on this thread as well as the way you exoticise white women.

    AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters 2009

  • She doesn't give in to the temptation to exoticise her subject matter or stereotype characters; rather, she offers clear-eyed, nuanced portraits of the bar girls and their soldier patrons.

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Alexis Soloski 2009

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