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The objective duality of the world and humanity should correspond to the juxtaposition of Oriental and Western studies, but science and pedagogy know only the former, i.e., Orientalism. This monopoly was a consequence of the formation of the modern system of sciences in an era of global domination by the West, which presented the East as its opposite, the non-West, and/or interpreted its relations with it in value-asymmetric categories of culture and barbarism. The publication in 2006 of the Russian translation of E. Said's famous book Orientalism and the scientific and educational reforms of 2010-2013 led to a discussion among Russian Orientalists about the meaning of
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