A map with the U.S. colored green and the rest of the world colored pink or orange best embodies which concept of Edward Said's?
A) hybridization
B) periphery
C) imaginative geography
D) postcolonialism

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The concept of imaginative geography refers to the way in which people imagine and represent the world around them. In this case, coloring the U.S. green and the rest of the world pink or orange reinforces the idea of the U.S. as the center of the world, and the rest of the world as the periphery. This is an example of how geography is imagined and reinforces power relations.

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