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We have the words anglophile and anglophobe, and francophile and francophobe, etc. for those who adore or detest the cultures of England, France, etc.

Given the pervasive influence of U.S. culture, one would think it would be valuable to have parallel terms for the U.S. Do such terms exist?
 
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I don't know by I find it interesting from a psychological viewpoint that you chose to name the thread using anglophile but francophobe.

Over to you Doctor Freud.


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I suggest yankophile and yankophobe.
 
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U.S. culture
An oxymoron, surely? Big Grin


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I find it interesting from a psychological viewpoint that you chose to name the thread using anglophile but francophobe. Over to you Doctor Freud.
Now Bob! With two prefixs and two suffixes there are four combinations, which seemed rather too many to fit into a title-line. Now of course I could have fit all the prefixes and suffixes into two words by saying anglophobe and francophile, but could anglic insecurity have borne the insult? Wink

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Non Angli, sed Angeli.
 
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Non Angli, sed Angeli.

They did have a word for it, those Romans.


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I have been workshopping a limerick of Richard's on OEDILF on Anglophiliac. Interestingly, one of the astute workshoppers picked this up about the difference between Anglophiliac and Anglophilia:

"Anglophiliac does not mean sheer admiration. Anglophilia does. But Anglophiliacs share (or have) admiration."
 
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Non Angli, sed Angeli.

They did have a word for it, those Romans.


Said, if I remember correctly, because of their blonde hair and blue eyes, not because of their comportment.

And arnie, in re US culture: 'tis no oxymoron - we have many fungi here. Wink
 
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Well . . . I would say we have lots of culture . . . whether or not it's actually high culture . . .

I mean, Jeff Foxworthy, one of our comedians, has pointed out quite a few cultural idiosyncracies of "Red-necks" that make the group quite identifiable.


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It's a rhetorical device, CW. When one disagrees with somebody's something, it's best to just deny it's anything at all. Which reminds me: what is the difference between LA and yoghurt? ...


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One of them has a culture - AND one tastes better, but I'm not sure which.
 
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Egg-zackly, Asa.


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I suggest yankophile and yankophobe.


People in Texas and other Southern locations would disagree with this. While George Bush might be a Yankee, southerners would feel mortally insulted to be called Yankees. Of course, I'm a "yankee" and I'm from Chicago, so go figure, it evidently has something to do with the civil war, and nothing to do with Dutch pirates.
 
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It has to do with the Mason Dixon line.
 
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People in Texas and other Southern locations would disagree with this.

Well, last I heard, Tejas and other states southern lost the Civil War and ain't really part of Anerica anywho. Wink And, it was a joke, son. I say a joke.


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