Believing that criticism and knowledge are secular and worldly , said reveals that the whole academy of orientalism is constructed to be a way of domination and having authority over the orient and the discourses about the orient are mainly ethnocentric 对批评以及知识的世俗性的确信，使得赛氏得出了一个具有变革意义的结论：东方学是建构的，是种族中心主义的，其目的是凌驾于并且控制东方。
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This new trend undermines the traditional teaching of history in primary and secondary schools , which is based on the ethnocentric approach , by which nation states use to strengthen national collective identity , often in opposition to other states 这一新趋势削弱了传统的中、小学历史教学，传统历史教学建立在种族中心主义方法基础之上，被民族国家用于加强民族集体认同（通常与其他国家相对立） 。
