Blogs about: Exoticism

Featured Blog

The Coronazione Connection

cultureonthecheap wrote 2 weeks ago: So we didn’t get Cavalli’s Egisto, since it hasn’t made it to a recording (apart f … more →

Tags: Culture and Communications, opera project, Cavalli, Edward Said, faustini, Francesco Cavalli, giovanni faustini, glixon, L'incoronazione di Poppea

The Exoticism of Africa

Gina wrote 3 months ago: It’s not hard to notice that what’s in in fashion right now is Africa.  Literally, the p … more →

Tags: Fashion, InStyle?, Africa

Exoticism & Chinese American Food3 comments

johanna wrote 6 months ago: Not specifically vegan, but check out this great Racialicious post debunking myths many people in th … more →

Tags: China

Will you buy it?5 comments

yskid wrote 7 months ago: Look at the Whooper Virgins commercial: I recently saw this commercial on TV, and I was pretty … more →

Tags: Forensics, actuality, Commercial, whopper virgins

The Revenge of the Local, the Horror of the Provincial, and Western Cosmopolitanism at Risk15 comments

Maximilian Forte wrote 7 months ago: Anti-Globalization? What Madness Is This? John Jarratt in Wolf Creek (Australia) This is true M … more →

Tags: colonialism/imperialism, EUROCENTRISM & UNIVERSALISM, Globalization, Monday Morning Madness, appalachia, Australia, bacpackers, Brazil, Cannibalism

Wellness Orientalism of the Lotophagi

hmotoh wrote 10 months ago: After a month long travel through South-East Asia my belongings changed colour and appearance: my ba … more →

Tags: asian, Intercultural, Orientalism, Add new tag, Asia, East Asia, Spa, Wellness

Still on Safari ... the 'African feeling' 1 comment

Sean Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: Sign spotted in last week of June at a festival on the Elbe in Dresden, Germany. … more →

Tags: Not just about Africa, Alcohol, Dresden, Germany, old East Germany, Orientalism

Not your exotic, not your erotic

1d4watchman wrote 1 year ago: A poem by Suheir Hammad: more about “Suheir Hammad – Not Your Erotic, Not … … more →

Tags: Poetry, Decolonization, Résistance, alterity, difference, Suheir Hammad, eroticism, Eurocentrism

Fiction, Fantasy, Deserts, and Destruction

erin l. wrote 1 year ago: Article: “Kiddie Orientalism” by Brian T. Edwards in The Believer (June 08 ) Book: The B … more →

Tags: Destruction, excess, Exhibition, film, peripheral vision, desert, Ed Ruscha, Exhibitions, Las Vegas

ISSUE #1 [forthcoming] - not available yet

Henry Crudos wrote 1 year ago:   - SPECIAL: Comics / Gender (tbc) - Interviews: THE PROCESS - Spot report: tba - DIY recording pt. … more →

Tags: ALL HELL HANGS LOOSE Issues, DIY, hardcore, interviews, Issue 1, Politics, Poster, Punk, Recording

They Fell For It (Suckers): "New Tribe Discovered"5 comments

Maximilian Forte wrote 1 year ago: My “Four New Tribes Discovered” post not only brought in over 1,000 hits in just 48 hour … more →

Tags: Decolonization, colonialism/imperialism, Out There, savagery, Primitivism, lost tribe, new tribe, Uncontacted tribe, envira

CNN's "Mondo Cane": Screaming Muslim Babies in India, and Gawking Journalists (updated)

1d4watchman wrote 1 year ago: CNN aired a piece on a “baby dropping ritual” in India in the Anderson Cooper segment la … more →

Tags: Imperialism, India, racism, CNN, ethnocentrism, Islamophobia, Voyeurism, Muslims throwing babies, Mondo Cane

CNN's "Mondo Cane": Screaming Muslim Babies in India, and Gawking Journalists (updated)3 comments

Maximilian Forte wrote 1 year ago: CNN aired a piece on a “baby dropping ritual” in India in the Anderson Cooper segment la … more →

Tags: colonialism/imperialism, CNN, Anderson Cooper, India, Mondo Cane, gawking, Voyeurism, Spectacle, Primitivism

Exoticism, The Other and Self Hate

soton25 wrote 1 year ago: On Friday I picked up Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance by Rachel F. Moran, t … more →

Tags: Interracial, IR, ::The Other::, Self-Hate

Exoticising in "Eat, Pray, Love"

Russian Dollz wrote 1 year ago: For all of the shit that we have given Elizabeth Gilbert and her book Eat, Pray, Love, she did have … more →

Tags: Balance, E.M. Forster, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, Possibilities

Old formula + Old plot = New reason to be bored2 comments

지인 wrote 1 year ago: It’s a shame, really. Three actors whose work I typically enjoy, doing a film with a stale pre … more →

Tags: media, racism & race consciousness, Cliches, Orientalism, films, white lens

Serving Beer for Mongolians

Dana wrote 1 year ago: I certainly get to do interesting and unexpected things for my new job. Yesterday, I helped one of m … more →

Tags: Life, Culture contrast, Inner Mongolia, Beer

France's Imperial Leader Explains Africa to Itself

Maximilian Forte wrote 1 year ago: From James McDougall’s article, “Sarkozy and Africa: big white chief’s bad memory … more →

Tags: colonialism/imperialism, Sarkozy, Senegal, contemporary colonialism, evolutionism, racism, Imperialism, Africa, Progressivism

Black People Love Hillary . . . or something

mehass wrote 2 years ago: Thanks to $3.60 for bringing my attention to a new endorsement of Hillary Clinton by Maya Angelou. … more →

Tags: bodies, hillary clinton, Race, maya angelou, Politics, Fetishism


Have your say. Start a blog.

See our free features →

Related Tags
All →

Follow this tag via RSS

Find other items tagged with “exoticism”:
Technorati Del.icio.us IceRocket