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Complete Definition of "occidentotropism"

English

Noun
en-noun

  1. An expression (sometimes a figure of speech) with an inclination toward western civilization (i.e. the occident).

#*2002: Ella Shohat and Robert Stam, "The Imperial Imaginary", The Anthropology of Media: A Reader, Blackwell Publishers
#*: A kind of occidentotropism ("Go West Young Man!") informs the films, conveying a thrusting purposiveness...: Red Sundown (1956), Union Pacific (1939), The Last Outpost (1935, 1951), Heaven's Gate (1959).

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