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Answer:
During the Enlightenment, Western European thinkers used the Orient as a means of critiquing their own society and a means of demonstrating the superiority of their society .
Explanation:
Orientalism -
According to Orientalism -
1. The academic study of the orient , teaching and writing about them .
2. The way of thinking based on the ontological and epistemological distinction between the Western and eastern countries . orientals and Occidentals differ greatly and only westerns can produce knowledge of the orient.
3. A way of defining and commanding the orient . Western states dominates the orients on matter of intellect and economics.
Orientalism does not distinguish between different peoples in the east . This leads to a static view of the orient - opposite to the progress in the west.
Hence ,
Correct option is ( c ) both a and b.