Orientalism

Here , I am sharing my views on Orientalism which is written by Edward Said. I am depicting here some important points of an essay here.

• Orientalism revolutionized the study of the Middle East and helped to create and shape entire new fields of study such as Post-Colonial theory as well influencing disciplines as diverse as English,History, Anthropology, Political Science and Cultural Studies.
• Said argues that understanding a vast and complex region like the Middle East in this narrow way takes away from the humanity and diversity of millions of ordinary people living decent and humane lives there.
• Well one of the interesting things about the persistence of orientalism ,mean almost when you think about it ,almost astonishing persistence of it ,was the oklahoma city bombing in April of 1995. 
• The central argument of Orientalism is that the way that we acquire this knowledge is not innocent or objective but the end result of a process that reflects certain interests. That is ,it is highly motivated.
• The difference between British and French Orientalism on the one hand and the American experience of the Orient on the other is that the American one is much more indirect, much more based on abstractions. The second big thing, I think that differs in the American Experience from the British and the French of Orientalism, is that the American Orientalism is very politicized by the presence of Israel for which American is the main ally.