alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
(118.) "Chinese men were thought to lust after While women, 'seeking to assuage their perilous hunger by luring these women behind the partitions of their laundries or restaurants into their private lairs, then seducing them with wine and opium so that they could have sexual relations with them."' Sandra Ka Hon Chu, Reparation as Narrative Resistance: Displacing Orientalise and Recoding Harm for Chinese Women of the Exclusion Era, 18 CAN.
(58) The choice cannot have been coincidental, since this a strategy that clearly serves to orientalise and ultimately "other" Philip and all that he stands for.