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[–] olgas_husband@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 8 months ago

now, talking seriously, orientalism doesn't apply only to asians, it is for everyone in the third world, because it works with only two categories, the west and "the rest".

when the cuba revolution happened, fidel appeared on forbes as the most wealthy person in the world, following the orientalist script that leaders have a ridiculously ostentatious lifestyle they simply put cuba gdp as fidel's net worth.