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- noun the
conversion of something into a moreexotic form - noun the
representation of somethingordinary as being exotic - noun the act of romanticizing elements of something, like a
culture , that isforeign to oneself
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Examples
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Now, I suspect the interviewer is quoting me once referencing (and snorting over) some sentences in a Sitwell biography (too lazy to look up the title) where Edith says something about Villa that in politically-correct quarters would be considered "exoticization".
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Now, I suspect the interviewer is quoting me once referencing (and snorting over) some sentences in a Sitwell biography (too lazy to look up the title) where Edith says something about Villa that in politically-correct quarters would be considered "exoticization".
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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Maybe globalization has short-circuited SFs exoticization tendencies?
The Future is Japanese. Really. « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2009
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The exoticization that saved the neighborhood in the past became fuel for protest; in black-and-white photos of a 1968 Chinatown demonstration, young radicals rejected the old guard with signs that lampooned a dated way of thinking: “KEEP GRANT AVE NARROW, DIRTY, AND QUAINT FOR TOURISTS!”
American Chinatown Bonnie Tsui 2009
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The exoticization that saved the neighborhood in the past became fuel for protest; in black-and-white photos of a 1968 Chinatown demonstration, young radicals rejected the old guard with signs that lampooned a dated way of thinking: “KEEP GRANT AVE NARROW, DIRTY, AND QUAINT FOR TOURISTS!”
American Chinatown Bonnie Tsui 2009
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The exoticization that saved the neighborhood in the past became fuel for protest; in black-and-white photos of a 1968 Chinatown demonstration, young radicals rejected the old guard with signs that lampooned a dated way of thinking: “KEEP GRANT AVE NARROW, DIRTY, AND QUAINT FOR TOURISTS!”
American Chinatown Bonnie Tsui 2009
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The exoticization that saved the neighborhood in the past became fuel for protest; in black-and-white photos of a 1968 Chinatown demonstration, young radicals rejected the old guard with signs that lampooned a dated way of thinking: “KEEP GRANT AVE NARROW, DIRTY, AND QUAINT FOR TOURISTS!”
American Chinatown Bonnie Tsui 2009
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F: moreover, it suggests that there is unconsidered racism and exoticization going on in this market.
So friends list, do you find this appropriate? shweta_narayan 2009
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Out of fear of self-exoticization, whole lexicons, common and proper nouns, landscapes, backroads, and trysts go unrecorded.
Archive 2009-12-01 EILEEN 2009
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Out of fear of self-exoticization, whole lexicons, common and proper nouns, landscapes, backroads, and trysts go unrecorded.
THE LONG LOST STARTLE by JOEL TOLEDO EILEEN 2009
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