Viewers of The Sympathizer may be wondering what “occidental” means in episode 2. Professor Hammer (Robert Downey Jr.), the Orientalist grad school professor, calls the unnamed Captain (Hoa Xuande) the “perfect symbiosis of Oriental and Occidental.” Later in the scene, Hammer then suggests that the half-French, half-Vietnamese protagonist make a list of all his so-called Oriental qualities and Occidental…
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