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Differentiation and stereotyping of the ‘East’ and the ‘West’ have preoccupied the minds of people residing in both. There is a tendency to place depictions of the East and the West in binary form; that is, East is this and West is that, with no point of connection. The worldly preoccupation is depicted by Kipling in his 1890s poem, Ballad of East and West: Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth! (Kipling, 2009)
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Liu, O.P. (2012). Framings of the East: The Case of Borneo and the Rungus Community. In: Nair-Venugopal, S. (eds) The Gaze of the West and Framings of the East. Frontiers of Globalization Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137009289_11
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