What is Othering

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Considering another person, or group of people, as fundamentally different from ‘us’, thereby failing to acknowledge their subjectivities and complexities. Learn more in: A New Border Pedagogy: Rethinking Outbound Mobility Programs in the Asian Century

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To glorify your own values by denigrating others. Learn more in: Orientalism in Turkish Political Election Campaigns

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The intentional and unintentional exclusion of an individual or group based on differences in culture, gender, race, ethnicity, non-binary, class, and ability. Learn more in: Sustaining Our Diminishing Teachers of Color in Urban and Suburban Schools: A Crisis of an Othered Identity

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Marking a person or a group as different from the “self” and placing them at society’s margins. Learn more in: Representing and Othering Oriental Women After 9/11: An Analysis of Body of Lies

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As the dictionary definition of marginalization, it is to argue that the different is the enemy and the evil one. Being excluded. Learn more in: Orientalism, Islamophobia, and the Concept of Otherization Through Civil Conflict, Digital Platform Netflix: The Example of the Messiah Series

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To make a person or group of people seem different, or to consider them to be different. Learn more in: Digital Games and Orientalism: A Look at Arab and Muslim Representation in Popular Digital Games

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The action of making some group into a clear contrast to ‘us’. Learn more in: Mental Illness and Women in Cinema: “Beautiful and Troubled Women”