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- noun an
attraction orlove offoreign people,manners orculture
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Examples
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As far as being accused of xenophobia's concerned, well xenophobia's not a crime - although I think it's as morally abhorrent as xenophilia.
Yanquico, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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He explains this well and suggests that serendipity is one tool by which people might transcend these effects "Homophily, serendipity, xenophilia" .
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He explains this well and suggests that serendipity is one tool by which people might transcend these effects "Homophily, serendipity, xenophilia" .
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This is the human condition writ large, stretched out on the fabric of millenia and seasoned with the subtle taste of xenophilia.
The Friday "Morning After The Holiday" Review: The Dragons Of Springplace
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Peter Mandelson is a past master of the politics of xenophilia; his warning against 'the politics of xenophobia' taking hold in the spontaneous direct action now being taken by British workers is his bunker moment.
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It's a metaphor for the intolerance of differences which we begin to transcend in eating more variety, which become a new metaphor for a phenomena I wrote about in "Accidental Conversations", xenophilia, the love of that which is different.
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There is xenophobia (a dislike and/or fear of that which is unknown or different from oneself) and xenophilia (an affection for unknown objects or human beings), and it’s nice to land somewhere in between the two…
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As an indication of Gorbachev’s xenophilia, he started borrowing words from English.
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