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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 9023607" data-attributes="member: 463">Nothing to do with east-Asia really. Said was complaining about European depictions of the Near East & Middle East. The Orientalist tropes he complained about don't really figure in pop-culture depictions of east-Asia (although there were separate negative depictions of China in the 19th & early 20th century, mostly in the USA). Which is arguably a bit odd since east Asia has or had just as many harems and concubines as the Middle East. I guess there's "The Brides of Fu Manchu", but east-Asian lust/degeneracy isn't really a major trope. I guess there were never east-Asian pirates and raiders taking Europeans into slavery en masse, that may be part of it.In any case this has no relation to geek obsession with ninjas & samurai that I can see. Ninjas and Samurai are 'cool', the same way Vikings and Spartans are 'cool'.</blockquote>