Reading again and again -on various sites and blogs- accounts of Europeans in Japan and their absolute "expert" opinions on what the East is.. All it comes to my mind is how contemporary Said still is with his "Orientalism"..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_%28book%29
http://www.odsg.org/Said_Edward(1977)_Orientalism.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_%28book%29
http://www.odsg.org/Said_Edward(1977)_Orientalism.pdf
(Picture taken from Wikipedia)
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