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exoticize
/ ɪgˈzɒtɪˌsaɪz /
verb
- tr to regard or present as exotic
Example Sentences
Because, you see, Won is never just playing basketball; he’s simultaneously playing an exhausting game designed by White people to idealize him, dismiss him and exoticize him while he dutifully pretends he doesn’t see color.
If they over-complicate or even exoticize dishes that aren't British or distinctly European, why wouldn't they?
But he refuses to exoticize local quirks in the way of Herodotus and his ilk.
Together, Bolognesi and the Yanomami have crafted a film that reveals their largely unseen world while refusing to exoticize the indigenous group.
The French also have a persistent fascination with the exotic: Paul Gauguin’s paintings of Tahitian life, books like “Madame Chrysanthème” by Pierre Loti, lists of “exotic” Parisian restaurants — through the prism of French cuisine’s dominance, it’s no wonder that we still exoticize food, particularly food from places the French colonized, including areas of Africa and Asia.
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