exoticism
noun
ex·ot·i·cism
ig-ˈzä-tə-ˌsi-zəm 
variants
or less commonly exotism
: the quality or state of being exotic
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Its animation patronizes the third world via DIE dictates, same as with the endless iterations of The Lion King, but this cartoon exoticism is just a new form of the blatant colonialism that Claude Lévi-Strauss lamented in his 1958 memoir Tristes Tropiques.
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Armond White, National Review, 4 Dec. 2024
Small moments like this feel like the show is trying to address what an American audience might expect from a fish-out-of-water story without indulging the instinct to revel in the exoticism of a foreign land.
—Jesse Raub, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2024
His construct of a post-civilization fable conveys a weird Down Under exoticism that, since such movies as Walkabout, Outback, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, and The True History of the Kelly Gang is probably linked to Australia’s penal-colony inferiority complex.
—Armond White, National Review, 24 May 2024
Marley won a following outside Jamaica, specifically among white sophomores who were drawn to his exoticism.
—Armond White, National Review, 16 Feb. 2024
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Armond White, National Review, 4 Dec. 2024
Small moments like this feel like the show is trying to address what an American audience might expect from a fish-out-of-water story without indulging the instinct to revel in the exoticism of a foreign land.
—Jesse Raub, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2024
His construct of a post-civilization fable conveys a weird Down Under exoticism that, since such movies as Walkabout, Outback, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, and The True History of the Kelly Gang is probably linked to Australia’s penal-colony inferiority complex.
—Armond White, National Review, 24 May 2024
Marley won a following outside Jamaica, specifically among white sophomores who were drawn to his exoticism.
—Armond White, National Review, 16 Feb. 2024
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“Exoticism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exoticism. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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