Here Orient is not any more sensual and phantasmagoric, it is rigid and almost cold. Here Occident is no more sparkling and victorious, it is sad and decadent. |
An average illiterate, uncultured Indian is by birth more resistant against diseases then a well informed citizens of the Occident. |
The emperorship was conceived as universal and gave its incumbent control over the entire Occident. |
We do shine on occasions, we people of the Occident, but the Burmese shine all the time. |
Reductively, one could say this is the distinction built into the binary of the Occident and the Orient. |
In the 19th century the Orient and the Occident were discursively established just like mirror effect. |