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  • adjective Exhibiting xenophilia; fond of foreign people or customs.

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Examples

  • During the day and around town, kids will flock to them with xenophilic enthusiasm.

    The Return of the Intergalactic Planetary Landscape Architect 2008

  • During the day and around town, kids will flock to them with xenophilic enthusiasm.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • Thus, in general, Taiwanese are xenophilic to Caucasian but xenophobic to other Asians.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Michael Turton 2006

  • Thus, in general, Taiwanese are xenophilic to Caucasian but xenophobic to other Asians.

    Sunday, April 9, 2006, Taiwan Blog Round Up Michael Turton 2006

  • Mark: The zine would be Jethro Bodine of "The Beverly Hillbillies" -- curious, neophilic, xenophilic, gleeful, and eager to adopt any new theory or conspiracy as the absolute truth.

    Boing Boing: September 29, 2002 - October 5, 2002 Archives 2002

  • In the late 1960s Gil emerged a leader of tropicalismo, a xenophilic movement that revitalized Brazilian arts.

    Tropicalismo 2.0 Colin Berry 1998

  • Ranjit Souri's stereotypical casting as a convenience-store owner in one scene is redeemed in another when he plays a young man confronting a ludicrously xenophilic future mother-in-law.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Ranjit Souri's stereotypical casting as a convenience-store owner in one scene is redeemed in another when he plays a young man confronting a ludicrously xenophilic future mother-in-law.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Plus, Serbs, with exception towards Albanians, are quite xenophilic … They are quite open in socializing with most of nations.

    A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros 2009

  • Amid the xenophilic inundation of the English lexicon during this period, however, many words were brought into the language not so much to fill gaps as to satisfy particular writers 'penchants for the far-fetched.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2 1983

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