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Antonym: Eurosceptic; Fennophile: a fan of Finnish culture; Francophile or Gallophile: a fan of French culture. Antonym: Francophobe; Germanophile or Teutophile: a fan of German culture. Antonyms: Germanophobe and teutophobia; Hellenophile: a fan of Greek culture (i.e. someone prone to philhellenism) Hibernophile: a lover of Ireland or Irish ...
According to Henriques, "base culture is bottom-up popular, street culture, generated by an urban underclass surviving almost entirely outside the formal economy". [23] That the music is low frequency sonically and regarded as reflective of a lower culture shows the influential connection between counterculture and the music produced.
Culturology or the science of culture is a branch of the social sciences concerned with the scientific understanding, description, analysis, and prediction of cultures as a whole. While ethnology and anthropology studied different cultural practices, such studies included diverse aspects : sociological , psychological , etc., and the need was ...
Life in Kowloon Walled City has often inspired the dystopian identity in modern media works. [1]A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ (dus) 'bad' and τόπος (tópos) 'place'), also called a cacotopia [2] or anti-utopia, is a community or society that is extremely bad or frightening.
Xenophilia or xenophily is the love for, attraction to, or appreciation of foreign people, manners, customs, or cultures. [1] It is the antonym of xenophobia or xenophoby. The word is a modern coinage from the Greek "xenos" (ξένος) (stranger, unknown, foreign) and "philia" (φιλία) (love, attraction), though the word itself is not found in classical Greek.
Monoculturalism is the policy or process of supporting, advocating, or allowing the expression of the culture of a single social or ethnic group. [1] It generally stems from beliefs within the dominant group that their cultural practices are superior to those of minority groups [2] and is often related to the concept of ethnocentrism, which involves judging another culture based on the values ...
The word is derived from the Latin word Anglii and Ancient Greek word φίλος philos, meaning "friend".Its antonym is Anglophobe. [3]One of the earliest instances of the word "Anglophile" was recorded in December 1864, when Charles Dickens wrote in an edition of his weekly magazine All the Year Round that he viewed the French monthly magazine Revue des deux Mondes as "an advanced and ...
The term cultural cringe is most commonly used in Australia, where it is believed by some to be a widely accepted facet of Australian culture. [8] In Another Look at the Cultural Cringe, [9] the Australian academic Leonard John Hume examined the idea of cultural cringe as an oversimplification of the complexities of Australian history and ...