Orientalism

Question 1

What is orientalism?

Answer 1

Representation of Asia in a stereotyped way that is regarded as embodying a colonialist attitude

Question 2

What was operation legacy?

Answer 2

Operation during the 1950s and 1970s to destroy all documents where the empire had done questionable things

Question 3

What was the name of the operation during the 1950s and 1970s to destroy all documents where the empire had done questionable things?

Answer 3

Operation Legacy

Question 4

What did Ferguson say?

Answer 4

‘There seems a plausible case that empire enhanced global welfare- in other words was a Good thing’
‘Empire is a form of international government that can work and not just for the benefit of a the ruling power’

Question 5

What were the stereotypes about Asians?

Answer 5

Men were sexually incompetent and there women were trapped
Autocratic
Unwelcoming and impossible to trust

Question 6

What did Kipling say about orientals?

Answer 6

‘East is east and west is west, and never the Twain shall meet’

Question 7

Who said ‘East is east and west is west, and never the Twain shall meet’?

Answer 7

Kipling