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Arab Occidentalism
The colonial experience in the Third World differed from one continent to another and from one country to another one, so the colonized or precolonized people 's responses to and conceptions of that experience are different. The colonial experience in the Arab world in particular was significantly different from that one in the African countries. For example, the Napoleonic Campaign in Egypt (1798-1801) had many credits such as the introduction of printing to Egypt. Therefore, some Egyptian writers articulated a positivist view toward the West while others insisted on their radical standpoints and called for total separation from the West.
Post-colonial Occidentalism
Postcolonial occidentalism is considered as a point of departure in postcolonial studies. The mainstream of postcolonial writings is a counter narratives in which postcolonial writers set forth to write about the prejudices attached to the pre-colonized world by the West. However, postcolonial occidentalism aims at adressing the body of the occidental man, not only as an individual, but also as a set of believes, paradigmes and actions. This project seeks to dismantle the self-representation of the Western man as superior over other men from different races and colors. In this, this new discourse could anhilate the master-slave and superior-inferior dialectics.
Romantic Occidentalism
Romantic Occidentalism started from within the Occidental world. In other words, it was undertaken by western writers, namely the Romantics. Romantic occidentalists share with postcolonial ones the critical spirit that both direct to the Occidental thought system and civilization, though Romantic occidentalism exhibits less sever critique compared to the postcolonial one. However, what one can say about occidental Romantic writings is that they had a constructive agenda rather that a destructive one. In other words, Romantic occidentalist addressed the ills existed in their societies looking forward reforming them.