Comments on: More on orientalism and tourism https://languageonthemove.com/more-on-orientalism-and-tourism/ Multilingualism, Intercultural communication, Consumerism, Globalization, Gender & Identity, Migration & Social Justice, Language & Tourism Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:12:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Khan https://languageonthemove.com/more-on-orientalism-and-tourism/#comment-1750 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:12:36 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=2362#comment-1750 What a thick description(Geertz). Thanks Yan Hongyan for bringing forth the local understanding of the way of life and the values associated with the marriage customs of the people. Your blog reinforces the idea that the use of the language can often be very mystificatory and its proper analysis de-mystify it. Your blog has absolutely been successful in exposing the manipulations done by the advert. It is very interesting and a very well argued case. Many thanks for a lovely post!

Khan

]]> By: Xiaoxiao Chen https://languageonthemove.com/more-on-orientalism-and-tourism/#comment-1744 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:32:15 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=2362#comment-1744 Hongyan, thank you very much for this amazingly detailed and fabulous account of Naxi and Musuo people! Your contribution has enlightened us of the real life of the ethnic minorities in Yunnan. I deem your article especially rare and precious, because its been so hard for us to obtain a fair and authentic account of ethinic minorities in China from an insider, which is written in English! I do wish some day there will be more such voices and these voices will be heard internationally and will also be taken seriously. The represented CAN and WILL surely very well represent themselves, I believe.

]]> By: Lynda Yates https://languageonthemove.com/more-on-orientalism-and-tourism/#comment-1730 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:29:03 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=2362#comment-1730 What a fascinating account and a salutary reminder to really look beyond the surface! I was reminded of the insights I had into how aspects of our Anglo-western ‘sexual revolution’ appears to others when I was working with members of a traditional Shi’ia Muslim community from Iraq who had just immigrated to Australia. Many found our acceptance – and by default endorsement – of the drink affected behaviour of partially clad young people on Saturday nights completely beyond their comprehension.

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