This is an insanely complicated (and important) topic which grew out of and continues evolving in a shit ton of dialectical history and relations with all that is deemed "not western" as well as the dialectical history and relations with inevolving definition of what is deemed that and how; which would require me to just spam the shit out of your post with Fanon and Said extracts to even remotely hem in some aspects properly, and not hide a bunch of forest behind a few trees (or stumps); which I think I'm gonna do because I seeing that happening to this degree makes me uneasy