The word xenophilia is used to define the love that some individuals feel for people from other countries or cultures. People who suffer from xenophilia show a cordial and affectionate treatment of foreigners. This word is derived from the Greek "xeno" which means "foreigner" and "philos which means" love ".
Xenophilia makes the person feel a certain predilection for people with origins other than their own, as well as fanaticism for other cultures and customs.
Today there are those who defend xenophilia as an irrepressible expression of human solidarity, which goes far beyond simple international limits. While for those who are against it, xenophilia is wrong, since value is not given to one's own, to the autochthonous, but to idealize customs, which have nothing to do with one's own. This kind of philia is very common in developing countries.
People with xenophilia do not give importance to their own culture, going to the extreme of disrespecting it, since they are always fascinated by foreign cultures. Xenophilia can lead an individual to become interested in learning other languages, something that in a certain way represents a positive aspect for him, because in this way he is culturally enriched.
Xenophilia, as mentioned before, can be frequently evidenced in those underdeveloped countries that receive these foreigners with great enthusiasm, hoping to be able to know through them all the wonders of the place where they come from. This type of filias is not that it is bad, but it is questionable to see people who embrace customs from other countries and do not value their own culture. An example of this is the celebration of Hallowen, a custom of the United States that has been welcomed by most Latin American nations.
The opposite term to xenophilia is xenophobia, which means hatred or rejection of the foreigner, a term that today has had great force, so xenophilia has diminished over time. Xenophobia can be evidenced in Anglo-Saxon cultures, in some European cultures and in North America where the rejection of what is foreign is easy to verify.
