exoticize
verb
ex·ot·i·cize
ig-ˈzä-tə-ˌsīz
exoticized; exoticizing; exoticizes
: to portray or regard (someone or something) as exotic (see exotic entry 1 sense 2)
Foreign audiences often tend to exoticize various Slavic cultures, having relatively little access to our literatures and history.—Teo Bileta
As may be expected from an American cookbook from 1925, this book depicts people of color one-dimensionally and seems to romanticize and exoticize Middle Eastern culture and foods.—Kate Collins
[CNN's Lisa] Ling was asked to comment about the "disturbing" way Asian women are stereotyped in America. "Asian women have been fetishized and exoticized for generations," she explained.—Lindsey Ellefson
Many documentary photographic projects that deal with trans issues exploit the genders of their subjects, pointing to an "otherness" or inappropriately exoticizing their bodies.—L. Weingarten
The press has long had a tendency to exoticize the gay community.—K. Boo
exoticized
adjective
New Age interest in Native American cultures appears more concerned with exoticized images and romanticized rituals revolving around a distorted view of Native American spirituality than with the indigenous peoples themselves and the very real (and often ugly) socioeconomic and political problems they face as colonized peoples.
—Karen B. Graubart
exoticizing
noun
Attending the event, however, left me frustrated with the presenter's misrepresentations of Chinese American history and the consistent othering and exoticizing of Chinese people.
—Kimberly Rooney
exoticizing
adjective
The weakness of these films is that so far, they have required outsiders to tell the stories of people in these communities, often layering a romantic or exoticizing gaze onto the narrative.
—Rokhl Kafrissen
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