Tales are one of the purest literary genres that reveal the characteristics of the culture they belong to on the literature map of the world. Today, this feature has an important effect on the evaluation of Turkish, Indian and German tales. The shift in the global economic balances since the 18th century indirectly affects the activities of cultures in literature. The concrete indicators that social welfare brings to human life turn into an element that nourishes the idea of superior civilization. The tension created by economic weakness along with political confusion in the Middle East brings in two ideas to the world of literature. Some authors wish to establish a new literary environment by moving all the elements of the economically strong civilization to their own culture. Another group of authors reject the idea that economical power an indicator of cultural superiority and emphasize that their own literature is also valuable and worth pursuing. In both perspectives, the image of the “East” which the orientalist thought condemns to romantic passivity is rejected. The joint reaction in the world of thought is sometimes expressed via fairy tales as a common genre and this makes it compulsory to understand the place of this genre in today’s literature world. In the texts of Sezai Karakoç’s “Masal (The Fairy Tale)” and Erendiz Atasü’s “Madam Butterfly Ölmeyi Reddederse (If Madame Butterfly Refuses to Die)”, the tale is both a means of expressing cultural identity and a way of creating an ironic language. In this study, the occidentalist attitude developed by the mentioned authors against the Western world through the genre of tales will be evaluated using the concepts of “the self and the other”.