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Moreover, for Spivak, radical criticism often reproduces imperialist
assumptions. When Western feminists insist on promoting
individualism and project feminism as necessary and good, they are
unconsciously duplicating imperialist values.
Spivak also argues against making a virtue of continuous difference.
Those who romanticize difference are guilty of reverse ethnocentrism.
This process also
denies the non-
Western cultures
a chance to create
their own worlds.
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