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    1. hat they are a subject race, dominated by a race thatknows them and what is good for them better than they couldpossibly know themselve

      Author is trying to tell the audience that this isn't right. Balfour explains what the Egyptians might feel but have we ever heard from the Egyptians themselves?

    2. ne must repeatedly ask oneself whether what mattersin Orientali�m is the general group of ideas overriding the mass ofmaterial-about which who could deny that they were shot throughwith doctrines of European superiority, various kinds of racism,imperialism, and the like, dogmatic views of "the Oriental" as akind of ideal and unchanging abstraction?--or the much morevaried work produced by almost uncountable individual writers,whom one would take up as individual instances of authors dealingwith the Orient.

      Does it come from the people who want to override or by a particular person.

    3. I myself believe that Orienlalism is moreparticularly valuable as a sign of European-Atlantic power overthe Orient than it is as a veridic discourse about the Orient

      Orientalism is what causes the conflict not the place itself.

    4. In the first place, it would be wrong to conclude thatthe Orient was essentially an idea, or a creation with no corresponding reality.

      Wasn't just an idea.

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