Definitions:

Subaltern – The suppression of expression of the lower and colonised classes – being dependent on European influences

Orientalism – The portrayal of Asian countries and cultures from a prejudged western perspective, tending to generalise these cultures and in turn ignoring and eroding their differences

Diaspora – This is the voluntary widespread movement of people from their native homeland

Exoticism – The process of finding a unique cultural custom from a different culture arousing or exciting from the western coloniser’s perspective

Mimicry – This is the practice of the people of the colonised imitate the customs (clothing, language, politics, education etc.) of the coloniser

Otherness – The way a group neglects or marginalises another group from society. Classifying the other group as “other” stresses the fact they’re inferior and as a result carries onto the way the represent others, in the form of stereotypes