Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun [capitalized] One versed in or engaged in the study of the languages, literatures, institutions, etc., of western countries: opposed to Orientalist.
- noun A member of an Oriental nation who favors the adoption of Occidental modes of life and thought.
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Examples
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Genocide always produces furious debate and the 1995 mass murder was contested not only by the Serbian killers anxious to escape justice, but by what most people call "leftwing" intellectuals – although "occidentalist" or "west-hating" are more precise terms.
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But suggestions of global turmoil demonstrate a highly occidentalist perspective on the world.
The G20 summit must look beyond the west and think of the rest | Jonathan Glennie 2011
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Even the less lively occidentalist sometimes relates as real what only happened in his mind.
History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology 1868
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But suggestions of global turmoil demonstrate a highly occidentalist perspective on the world.
The Guardian World News Jonathan Glennie 2011
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It was to legitimise these reforms, which helped to strengthen the new Turkish state's new elites and were the subject of continuous debate in Turkey over the next 80 years, that we were called upon to embrace and even imitate a rosy-pink - occidentalist - European dream.
The Guardian World News Orhan Pamuk 2010
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