Xenophilia

Xenophily or xenophilia means an affection or liking for unknown, alien, or foreign objects or people. It is the opposite of xenophobia or xenophoby. The word is a modern coinage from the Greek "xenos" (ξένος) (stranger, unknown, foreign) and "philia" (φιλία) (love, attraction), though the word itself is not found in classical Greek.
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Also called xenophilism.Gs.
== In biology[edit] ==
In biology xenophily includes, for example, the acceptance by an insect of an introduced foreign plant closely related to the normal host. Xenophily is distinguished from xenophagy (or allotrophy), and is less common than xenophoby.[2] Early 20th century entomologists incorrectly concluded that the evolution of the glandular terminal disk was a function of xenophily, following its discovery in myrmecophilouslarvae.[3]
== In culture[edit] ==
Cultural xenophilia according to some sources can be connected with cultural cringe, or the feeling that one's own culture is inferior.[4] It may also be area-specific, such as led the Romans to believe that Greeks were better than Romans at music, art and philosophy, but evidently not better at military matters.[5]
== In religion ==
John of Salisbury expanded on the keys [to esotericism] originally proposed by Bernard of Chartres. "A foreign land. To think beyond one’s circumstances because “everywhere abides with wisdom”. Philosophy exacts sojourn in a foreign land — nay, makes at times her own a foreign land — nor does she ever feel the burden of exile. This is because she drives away domestic worries, which are of the flesh, with the result that the man entirely devoted, as it were, to the spirit, regards as foreign all that impedes the progress of wisdom. Everywhere he is at home and everywhere in his own country, because everywhere abides with him and everywhere abides with wisdom.""
2019 jan 1  by Cologero
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As a sexual thing
"Those who identify as Xenophiliacs typically feel desires for one or more fictional races of aliens, mutants, or other sentient beings that are not human in movies, books, etc It is not limited to any gender or sexuality."
== Branching ==
* See also: Xenostreams.
* See also, xenocentrism.
*Neo-xenology