Xenophilia

The xenophilia (from gr xenos " foreign " and philia, " friendship" ) referred to a personal or collective preference for strange, unknown things and people. The Duden xenophilic defined as education language " all strangers, all strangers a positive attitude towards open-minded ".

According to the Institute for Intercultural Competence and didactics xenophilia is a preference that is based as opposed to her xenophobia out that " people divide their environment into categories and make decisions on this basis and give estimates of persons." In the social sciences Gerhard Maletzke xenophilic defined, those " tribes, peoples, nations, foreigners friendly and open encounter while xenophobic groups all strangers suspicious, hostile, hostile to " and tend to foreclosure.

Peter Sloterdijk said in his lecture Tractatus philosophico - touristicus that "the positivity of Prejudice " as it were a "natural disposition for neophile, that is news -friendly, and xenophile, strange and strangeness friendly modes of perception and Ratings " offer. These were characteristics of which one may claim that " seen of them on the whole go civilizing effects ". One should " therefore appreciate the neophilia and xenophilia as proto -democratic virtues. " Today's mass tourism was so much he would aesthetically and morally displeasing often, " to refer to as a practice of conditional xenophilia ".