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The word nation has been in use since the 13th century and was attributed more to a race group than a political formation. As there is an obvious merger of the two there is difficulty in showing where the modern sense of the political meaning c ....

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... to establish what Orientalism was and is now.Raymond Williams describes the East as the Orient by saying that " Western and Eastern ( or oriental ) worlds are thus defined from the 16th and 17th century ". He goes on to describe teh west as " free enterprising or capitalist societies ". Orientalism has taken on many forms however since it was possible to travel and tell stories of strange lands of the orient. Edward Siad states that " for the orient idioms became frequent and these idioms took firm hold in European discourse ". Siad has first hand knowledge of the peculiar nature of these idioms as he feels that he is both Eastern and Wes ...