Editing Colonialism (section)

== Othering ==
[[Othering]] is the process of creating a separate entity to persons or groups who are labelled as different or non-normal due to the repetition of characteristics.<ref name="Mountz">{{Cite book |title=The Other, Key Concepts in Human Geography |last=Mountz |first=Alison |pages=2}}</ref> Othering is the creation of those who discriminate, to distinguish, label, categorise those who do not fit in the societal norm. Several scholars in recent decades developed the notion of the "other" as an epistemological concept in social theory.<ref name="Mountz" /> For example, postcolonial scholars, believed that colonising powers explained an "other" who were there to dominate, civilise, and extract resources through colonisation of land.<ref name="Mountz" />

Political geographers explain how colonial/imperial powers "othered" places they wanted to dominate to legalise their exploitation of the land.<ref name="Mountz" /> During and after the rise of colonialism the Western powers perceived the East as the "other", being different and separate from their societal norm. This viewpoint and separation of culture had divided the Eastern and Western culture creating a dominant/subordinate dynamic, both being the "other" towards themselves.<ref name="Mountz" />