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occidentalism

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

The habits and attitudes of westerners.

uncountable

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Examples

Giving full agency to the Chinese Occidentalists, she argues that Occidentalism was a discourse used within the context of domestic politics in post-Mao China as a “strategy of liberation" and a counterdiscourse to the government's ideological domination […]”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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