In the nineteenth century people landed in "foreign" cultures, brought to those
experiences languages that were not indigenous, used their own terminology to
describe what they saw. We call such people "Imperialist." To some extent
scholars still do this, casting the gaze of the present on foreign or past
cultures. But Theorists seem to do it more than others; they alight in
cultures and describe them in their own distinct language, which might be
thought somewhat imperial (small i).
David Ritchie,
Portland,
Oregon------------------------------------------------------------------
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