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A xenophile is someone who is attracted to foreign people, places, and customs.

If you love learning about different cultures from around the world and get excited about visiting different countries to experience how other people leave, you can describe yourself as a xenophile.

But you don’t have to travel the world to be a xenophile. You can learn about other cultures’ customs at home. It might be as simple as learning to cook foods from other cultures, listening to other cultures’ music, and exploring their language and art in your favorite medium.

Example: When Zeke visits other countries, they become a bit of a xenophile, learning everything they can during the trip.

The first records of the term xenophile come from around the 1940s. It combines the combining form xeno-, meaning “alien,” “strange,” or “guest,” and the combining form -phile, meaning “lover of,” or “enthusiast for.”

Xenophile is sometimes used in contrast to xenophobe, which is more commonly used. A xenophobe is someone who dislikes or fears other cultures and sometimes the people from those cultures. While xenophiles may embrace a more open and diverse population in their home country or community, many xenophobes prefer a closed, uniform population, not wanting people, businesses, or influences from other cultures. Such communities tend to be very fearful of anything different.

People often use xenophile to describe themselves or others in relation to their passion for other cultures.

Wes Yang always tells me I'm a "xenophile", and…yeah. Seems to me that a xenophile is a great thing to be. Everyone is so weird and different that if you want to like people, learn to appreciate the weird and different!

— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion)

I Love coming to Europe and visiting my Awesome Friends! I guess you can call me a Xenophile!

— Norm Lewis (@normlewis777)

Me: Where do you want to eat tonight? Mom: I don't know; what country will you have us traveling to? LOL

— Tamerra Griffin (@tamerra_nikol)

Is xenophile used correctly in the following sentence?

People sometimes think a xenophile just loves another culture’s food and music, but there is more to every culture.