Huh! That's interesting. I've never heard of this before.
I wouldn't really say that in any of the instances that the conquering culture really has any fondness for the objectified culture. ...
True. If they have any sort of "fondness", it's for their romanticized notions of the objectified culture, and even then it's still got that tone of condescension - sort of this "oh, how quaint" feel to it. And - going back to something that I think you were saying - it goes all back to issues of power more so than the actual thing itself.
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Date: 30 Nov 2009 05:29 pm (UTC)Huh! That's interesting. I've never heard of this before.
I wouldn't really say that in any of the instances that the conquering culture really has any fondness for the objectified culture. ...
True. If they have any sort of "fondness", it's for their romanticized notions of the objectified culture, and even then it's still got that tone of condescension - sort of this "oh, how quaint" feel to it. And - going back to something that I think you were saying - it goes all back to issues of power more so than the actual thing itself.