According to Said, the West created the concept of “the East” to refer to, and to allow them to suppress the peoples of the Middle East, India and Asia in general; and reduced the non-Western world to a homogenous entity: “the East”. When this entity was framed in the binary social relation of “us and them”; the Oriental World (the East), or “them” was inferior, backward, irrational, and wild as opposed to the Western “us”, rational, objective, progressive and superior.
According to Said, the “East” was a concept created by the ones living in the West, which in some way framed the East as if they were inferior to the West. Which is what is happening in this case that English literacy is seeming as superior as Persian literacy.