xenophilia \zen-uh-FIL-ee-uh\, noun:
An attraction to foreign peoples, cultures, or customs.
Yet the scenario of openhanded host and guest, of xenophilia, is played out time and time again in Homer's Odyssey. It mattered to those hill-bound and sea-scattered tribes that the wanderer be made welcome…
-- Nicholas Delbanco, The Lost Suitcase
This connectedness — so evident to the drama's spectator, so indiscernible to the dramatized participant — promotes what we might call xenophilia.
-- Susan Gubar, Critical Condition
The opposite of xenophobia, xenophilia has the same Greek roots. It literally means "attracted to strangers." It first appeared in English in the 1920s and was used heavily after the Second World War.
吸引外國民族，文化，或海關。
但崇洋媚外，慷慨的主機和來賓的情況下，上演了一次又一次的在荷馬的“奧德賽。它重要的那些綁定山和海散作出的遊子歡迎部落...
- 尼古拉斯·德爾班科，失落的旅行箱
這種連通性 - 如此明顯，以戲劇的觀眾，所以無形的戲劇化的參與者 - 促進我們可能叫崇洋媚外。
- 蘇珊Gubar，情況危殆
崇洋媚外的仇外心理的對面，有同樣的希臘根。它的字面意思是“吸引陌生人。”它最早出現在20世紀20年代在英國，被大量用於第二次世界大戰後。
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