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In it, Hansen asks whether the narrator exoticizes Mugabe when they meet.

Un(en)titled Ann Bogle 2011

It widens the mainstream, de-exoticizes, and makes it no stranger, in the public eye, to be gay or a woman or a Jew or in a wheelchair or of Nigerian or Korean or Tuvan descent than to be Ward and June Cleaver.

Heck of a nice species you got there. Shame if something... happened to it. coffeeem 2008

These products may simply display a Hindu deity, but many times, the manufacturers have chosen to take not-so-respectful, even perverted liberties with them -- contorting them or photoshopping them for an end to which we are uncertain, except that it ultimately exoticizes and defiles that which is not theirs.

Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: To Use Or Not To Use: The Question For Hindu Images And The West Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2010

These products may simply display a Hindu deity, but many times, the manufacturers have chosen to take not-so-respectful, even perverted liberties with them -- contorting them or photoshopping them for an end to which we are uncertain, except that it ultimately exoticizes and defiles that which is not theirs.

Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: To Use Or Not To Use: The Question For Hindu Images And The West Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2010

Finally, the entire book exoticizes and idealizes indigenous peoples.

feminist blogs in english » 2009 » June 2009

A series of scenic vignettes, all shot in and around the northern village of Lanna, the film harbors an obvious nostalgia for a simpler time, but it never exoticizes the hard agrarian life; the filmmaker's rapt, uncondescending eye keeps sentimentality at bay.

GreenCine Daily: Torino Dispatch. 2006

In Binlang Shi Shr (Betelnut Girls), Ho not only expresses a concern over the "entrapment" of women in sexual-economic exploitation, but also exoticizes this selling process, as an actor hired for the performance interacts with viewers like a betelnut girl.

Boing Boing: September 17, 2006 - September 23, 2006 Archives 2006

The film is about the way that tourism, and especially the particularly Western conception of tourism, eroticizes and exoticizes the foreign locales that the tourist visits.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona Ed Howard 2008

Except for the fact that the government either exoticizes these groups for tourist purposes while they remain poor, second-class citizens, or create conscious programs to aggressively assimilate these groups out of existence, particularly in politically hostile regions like Tibet and Xinjiang.

Katherine Goldstein: Hook, Line, and Sinker: NBC Swallows Opening Ceremonies Propaganda 2008

Notice the way that the author exoticizes them with references to color, a natural frivolity, and the use of words like “fevered,” “outlandish,” “wild,” and “exotic” exotic to who?

REPRESENTING “AFRICA” » Sociological Images 2008