To understand Said's theory, let's imagine (1) ______________________________ . For research purposes, he decides to go to a party. When he arrives, the party is (2) _________ . Most guests are casually dressed and dancing to loud electronic dance music. Others are sitting around lounging on the floor, kissing and laughing. The whole situation is (3) _____ to the professor. He has his own (4) __________ and finds it difficult to (5)_______________________ . He can't (6) _______ himself with them or understand what made them who they are. In the same way, Said argued, when Western scholars studied Eastern culture, they couldn't understand it because it differed from their own. So t hey portrayed the East as (7) ___________________ , (8) _______________________ it without ever understanding it. Deep down, the professor feels his values are (9) ________ . After all, he is an academic. His distaste for the partygoer's lifestyle confirms to him that his perspective is correct. He publishes his report portraying the partygoers as (10) __________________________________ because they (11) ______ from his own personal values. Just as the professor saw himself as (12) ______ to the partygoers, Said believed the West thought its society was (13) ______ to Eastern Society, but Said went further. He thought Western scholarship held strong ties to the (14) _____________________ that produced it. Concluding that much Western scholarship was (15) ____________ and (16) __________ . Said argued that stereotyping became (17) _________________________________________ . The West painted a picture of an Eastern world that needed (18) ______ . (19) __________________________ , rescuing the inhabitants who were too lazy and too pleasure-focused to be fit to govern themselves.