" Exoticism is the acute and immediate perception of an eternal incomprehensibility.
What triumphs, then, is not the rule of difference and lack of differentiation but instead an eternal incomprehensibility, the irreducible foreignness of cultures, manners, faces, languages.
If savour increases as a function of difference, what could be more savoury than the antagonism of irreducibles, the clash of eternal contrasts?
The irredeemability of the object: 'The essential exoticism is that which the Object has for the Subject.' Exoticism as the fundamental law of the intensity of sensations, of the exaltation of the senses, and thus of living itself ... "

― Jean Baudrillard , The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena