The Powerful:
How are Imperialist ideas created and how do they shape common views of the ‘other’?
Elitism created attitudinal shaping; the West began to see the Middle East as inferior, so any subsequent descriptions of the Middle East reflected this and propagated the idea of Western superiority that became a part of Western culture and knowledge.Travel is influential in two broad forms: travel writing documentation, and tourism
Travel Writing
“British knowledge of Egypt is Egypt…” (Said, page 2)
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Tourism
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