Xenophilia
The xenophilia (from ancient Greek ξένος Xenos "strange, foreign" and philia ) refers to a personal or collective taste for strange and unknown things and people. The Duden defines xenophile as educationally "positive attitude towards everything foreign, open to all foreigners".
According to the Institute for Intercultural Competence and Didactics , xenophilia is a preference that, like its opposite, xenophobia , is based on "that people divide their environment into categories and on this basis make decisions and make assessments about people". In the social sciences, Gerhard Maletzke defined xenophilous , those “tribes, peoples, nations who treat strangers in a friendly and open-minded manner, while xenophobic groups are suspicious, negative, hostile towards all strangers” and tend to isolate themselves.
Peter Sloterdijk said in his lecture Tractatus philosophico-touristicus that “the positivity of prejudice ” offers a “natural disposition for neophile, that is, novelty-friendly, and xenophile, foreign and foreign-friendly perceptions and evaluations”. These are properties of which one can claim that "viewed as a whole, they have civilizing effects". One should "therefore appreciate neophilia and xenophilia as proto-democratic virtues." Today's mass tourism , as much as it is aesthetically and morally displeasing, is "to be described as a practice of conditioned xenophilia".
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- ^ Duden - German Universal Dictionary, 6th, revised edition. Mannheim, Leipzig, Vienna, Zurich: Dudenverlag 2007, online here
- ↑ Xenophobia versus Xenophilia - xenophobia & xenophilia , glossary of the Institute for Intercultural Competence and Didactics, accessed on February 16, 2011
- ^ Gerhard Maletzke: Intercultural Communication. On the interaction between people from different cultures, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 1996, p. 33, here online
- ↑ Peter Sloterdijk: Tractatus philosophico-touristicus ( Memento of February 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 62 kB) p. 8.