Take the following as truth: And Orientalism , with its harsh critiques of European philology and American social science, contributed to an epistemological shift in the American  Traditional disciplines were no longer to be taken for granted as the vehicles of objective knowledge but themselves became the objects of ideological analysis.
Then the following statement: "Orientalism combines European and American characteristics into a new society." is true, false, or inconclusive?
Answer: Inconclusive