Orientalism constructs cultural, spatial, and visual mythologies and stereotypes that are often connected to the geopolitical ideologies of governments and institutions. The influence of these mythologies has impacted the formation of knowledge and the process of knowledge production.

Why is Orientalism significant?

Orientalism provided a rationalization for European colonialism based on a self-serving history in which “the West” constructed “the East” as extremely different and inferior, and therefore in need of Western intervention or “rescue”. ... Louis (1904) helped to reinforce Orientalist imagery in the United States.

How is Orientalism still relevant today?

Orientalism is still alive on the earth through the occupation of Egypt by the West, the Vietnam Crisis, the Palestine -Israel Crisis, the declaration of Palestine as the province or capital of Israel by the United States, and so on.