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Social Psychology (10th Edition)

10th Edition

ISBN:9780134641287

Author:Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers

Publisher:Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers

Chapter1: Introducing Social Psychology

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How do the ideas of Edward Said’s Orientalism and Mahmood Mamdani’s “Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: A Political Perspective on Culture and Terror” relate to each other in addressing the East and West, and their power imbalance and perceived inherent incompatibility? Also, particularly in the context of Middle Eastern culture, how would they both agree that Muslim or Arab peoples are generally perceived negatively?

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Edward Said, who is well-known for his criticism of the hegemonic claims made by the West towards the East, examines how the West portrayed the Orient or the East as a reality that is ontologically and epistemologically incompatible with the West. These discussions were widely discussed in his account titled, Orientalism. Mahmood Mamdani was an anthropologist who documented how the world began to regard Muslims in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Mamdani investigated the many political classifications used by the West to distinguish between "good Muslims" and "bad Muslims. Let us find connections between the two texts below.