Tournament: College Prep Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough AW | Judge: Spindler, Skye
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Western Techno-Orientalist discourses present Asians as subhuman and robotic- beings that not only lack moral capabilities but worst of all, threaten Western dominance. Creates internalized oppression and chain Asian bodies to the oppressive capitalist system
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Esaki, B. (2020) "Ted Chiang’s Asian American Amusement at Alien Arrival", Religions, 11(2), p. 56. doi: 10.3390/rel11020056. AL
Namely, from an otherhood lens, Chiang’s stories focus on challenges to the goodness
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techno-Orientalism erases subjectivity along with the richness of culture and religion.
Techno Orientalism is pervasive yet critically neglected in academia. Counterdialouge is key to reconstruct Asian images in literature
Roh et al. 15
DAVID S. ROH, BETSY HUANG and GRETA A. NIU, April 27. 2015, “Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media”, https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/techno-orientalism/9780813570631 AL
As this collection demonstrates, techno-Orientalism occurs across genres and disciplines—history
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, it has also engendered counterdialogue in those same cultural and political spaces.
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Discourse creates a social reality of what we believe to be the outside world
Holzscheiter ’14 Anna, “Between Communicative Interaction and Structures of Signification: Discourse Theory and Analysis in International Relations” Anna has been Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science since April 2015. During the academic year 2014-2015 she is John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University.
Those not familiar with the term “discourse” often ask: Is
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text in social context.”
Since Discourse shapes the way we interact,
the ROB is to vote for the debater whose discourse best constructs social reality in a desirable way
Orientalism functions through educational institutions to build hegemony and consent with Western domination.
Keskin 2018 (Tugrul, Middle East Studies after September 11 : Neo-Orientalism, American Hegemony and Academia http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pitt-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5449628)
As early as the 19th century, European colonial states established a direct link between
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the French and British state in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Links
Speculations of the future and discourse about future utopias do not include Asians
Roh et al. 15
DAVID S. ROH, BETSY HUANG and GRETA A. NIU, April 27. 2015, “Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media”, https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/techno-orientalism/9780813570631 AL
Utopias and dystopias are fundamentally speculative; they extrapolate futures built upon the dreams, or nightmares, of the present.
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And therefore the implicit argument is that people, given the choice, are not inclined to intermix their bodies and gene pools.
Technology Link
Technological discourse isn’t neutral, it’s rooted in a techno-orientalist drive which epitomizes East Asian territories as the locus of modern innovation. The aff’s deployment of targeted discourse in the debate space is emblematic of broader civil discourse against East Asian bodies
Lozano-Mendez 10 (Artur, Undergraduate Student Majoring in East Asian Studies, Published in 2010, “TECHNO-ORIENTALISM IN EAST-ASIAN CONTEXTS: REITERATION, DIVERSIFICATION, ADAPTATION”, pg. 184) RR Jr
Techno-orientalism is an orientalist discourse that the West established hegemonically at a global
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to the archipelago after St. Francis Xavier arrived to Kagoshima in 1549.
Asian workers in science and engineering face a cultural double bind, either they adhere to their own cultural values and be shamed for failure to advance in a Western ideal dominated field, or be integrated into the aggressive, unforgiving capitalist mindset
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ROLI VARMA , Science as Culture, Volume 11, Number 3, 2002 , “HIGH-TECH COOLIES: Asian Immigrants in the US Science and Engineering Workforce”, Homepages.ucl.ac.uk. Available at: http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucessjb/Varma202002.pdf (Accessed: 16 December 2021).
Cultural differences between Western and Asian countries have been identified in terms of modern and
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immigrants in the SandE workforce, and thus serve the status quo
ALT-Techno-orientalist discourse is perpetuated every day, only a confrontation with pedagogical practices centered on modernization theory can break down stereotypes surrounding East Asian functionality.
Lozano-Mendez 10 (Artur, Undergraduate Student Majoring in East Asian Studies, Published in 2010, “TECHNO-ORIENTALISM IN EAST-ASIAN CONTEXTS: REITERATION, DIVERSIFICATION, ADAPTATION”, pg. 184-186) RR Jr
Early in the history of exchange with Europeans, Japan was presented as the most
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structuring schemata that are constantly utilized by the geopolitics of the modernization theory.”
Impacts
The dehumanization of Orientalism is a form of racialized and gendered violence – it justifies military action and makes the Other dispensable.
Nayak ’06 (Meghana; Professor of Political Science at Pace University; March 2006; International Feminist Journal of Politics, 8:1; “Orientalism and ‘saving’ US state identity after 9/11; http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616740500415458, accessed 7/14/16)
The third element has to do with the nexus of power and knowledge. US
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sick’ individuals rather than as agents of systemized hatred, racialization and misogyny.