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When western (read white) comedians try, they often get it wrong.
Ham and Benson have the requisite stories to tell, including a picturesque episode involving a Minnesota university that arranged to bring a camel to campus, as a stress-relief treatment, only to cancel the appearance after protests; one student explained online that "camels are associated with stereotypes that reinforce harmful Western (read: white) perceptions of Arab people".
More recently, many Orthodox Greeks have been outraged by what they regard as western (read Catholic) aggression against fellow Orthodox Serbia.
These criticisms are grounded in a Western (read non-Saudi) view of the world.
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At one time a highly educated Westerner read perhaps 100 books, all of them closely.
As a child he watched westerns, read comics and played cowboys and Indians, but had become aware that the view he had been fed was skewed.
The metaphorical banners of the pro-Western camps read "primum agere" (it is most important to act), while those of the anti-Westerners read "primum non nocere" (first, do no harm).
One turning point, he said, was the growth of the Internet, which increasingly unites the once "discrete worlds" of Chinese and Western reading material.
However, few Western intellectuals read the essay in its entirety.
His book "Orientalism," which was published in 1978, had transformed the way Western intellectuals read the canonical European writings of the past three centuries.
In 1933, at a League of Nations conference in Geneva, the Japanese representative abandoned his prepared text and walked out, shouting at the Western delegates, "Read your history! . . .
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