English
Etymology
Greek, from ethnos, people. See s(w)e- in Indo-European Roots. Origin: < Gk philía friendship, affinity; see -phile, -ia

Noun
en-noun

1. Unnatural obsession with ethnicity or race. Possibly the result of emotional disturbance or trauma

#* 1994, Yuri Slezkine, "The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism," Slavic Review, Vol. 53, No. 2., 414-415 ¹
#*: "Non-Russian nationalism of all kinds appeared so natural and the Russian version of marxist universalism appeared so natural or so universalist, that most of these scholars failed to notice the chronic ethnophilia of the Soviet regime[...]"
#*2000, Alberto Spektorowski, "The French New Right: Differentialism and the Idea of Ethnophilian Exclusionism," Polity, Vol. 33, No. 2., 293 ²
#*:"This shift from National-Socialism and "racist ethnophobia" to cultural ethnophilia does not transform the New Right into a non-racist movement."

Synonyms
raceomania
ethnomania

• 2007-02-04 21:47 - Dmcdevit - {{en-noun}}

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