Definitions

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  • noun the conversion of something into a more exotic form
  • noun the representation of something ordinary as being exotic
  • noun the act of romanticizing elements of something, like a culture, that is foreign to oneself

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Examples

  • 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".

    FOR THE RECORD RE. JOSE GARCIA VILLA 2008

  • 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

  • Maybe globalization has short-circuited SFs exoticization tendencies?

    The Future is Japanese. Really. « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Out of fear of self-exoticization, whole lexicons, common and proper nouns, landscapes, backroads, and trysts go unrecorded.

    Archive 2009-12-01 EILEEN 2009

  • 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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