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Okay! So! Works like these fall under the category of "Orientalism". They do not accurately represent any culture or people, and were created as sort of Western fantasies of "The Middle East" and/or "Asia". The history of the term and the concept are complicated.
In 1978, Edward Said redefined the term Orientalism to describe a pervasive academic & artistic Western tradition of prejudiced interpretations of the Eastern world, shaped by the cultural attitudes of European imperialism in the 18th and 19th centuries. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientali…
Additionally, the first chapter of "The Middle East: A Cultural Psychology" (the chapter title is "Misunderstandings"), gives a summarized overview of the history of Orientalism as this sort of invented foil to "The West": books.google.com/books?id=-uhBD…
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