Moreover, Said explores how the assumptions put forth by these Western scholars have been constructed in opposition to how the West portrays themselves as the rational, as the open-minded, as the tolerant, and thus defines this projected image of ˜The Orient' as something we are not under the constituted definition of what ˜the other' is. ...

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