I just spotted this on another blog [The Hampshire Feminist Collective: ‘The legacies of Orientalism and the exoticizing of women’]:

“The brilliant Emi Koyama once said “There’s no innocent way of being in this world”, meaning that no one, not even the most enlightened among us, can exist outside of history, outside of the legacies of colonial violence that shaped the world we inhabit.” — Tassja, The Jasmine Diaries Part II: ‘Exotic’ is Not a Compliment.

This might help to clarify, even if just a little, what I was I think trying to convey at the end of the post [here if you can’t find it].