"The
arts and disciplines of representation (…) depended
on the European capacity to turn the non-European world into
representations (…) with the aim to contemplate, dominate
and above everything to retain it.” However, “if
culture can predispose one society to prepare itself for the
oversees domination of another, and even play an active role
in such a domination, it can also vice versa, contribute to
appease or modify such a disposition.”
Edward
Said, Culture and Imperialism