Hispanophile

Protesters against Kosovo independence carry Spanish flags after Spain decided that will not recognize Kosovo, Belgrade 2008

Hispanophile (Spanish: hispanófilo)^[1] is a word with two meanings. The first meaning refers to a person who is fond of Spain, its people, or its cultures, and it can also be the corresponding adjective.^[2] The second meaning generalizes the first one to all Spanish-speaking countries.^[3] Its opposite is Hispanophobia.

Famous Hispanophiles

Jaime Eyzaguirre - a Chilean historian
Archer M. Huntington - an American scholar
Stanley G. Payne - an American historian
Hugh Thomas - a British historian.
Ernest Hemingway - an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and Nobel laureate in Literature who wrote books set in both Cuba and Spain.
Orson Welles - American actor, director, writer and producer

References

↑ Word Reference.com Retrieved June 6, 2011, from http://www.wordreference.com/definicion/hispan%C3%B3filo
↑ http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0006514.html
↑ http://www.bartleby.com/61/65/H0216560.html

Cultural appreciation

Europe	European Albanian Austrian English/British Estonian Finnish French German Greek Spartan Irish Italian Roman Scandinavian Swedish Slavic Russian Serbian Ukrainian Spanish

Africa	Egyptian Sub-Saharan

Americas	Uruguayan

Asia	Armenian Chinese Georgian Indian Iranian/Persian Japanese Jewish Korean Pakistani

Oceania	Australian

See also: Acculturation • Colonialism • Cultural appropriation • Cultural assimilation

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