Occident

Occident is a term meaning "the west".

Edward Said also used the term in his book Orientalism (1978). He used it to mean Western countries that had colonized the Orient. This in particular includes France, Great Britain and later the United States.[1]

References
  1. Burney, Shehla (2012). "Orientalism: The Making of the Other". Pedagogy of the Other: Edward Said, Postcolonial Theory, and Strategies for Critique. Peter Lang. p. 24.
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