Xenocentrism

Xenocentrism is the preference for the cultural practices of other cultures and societies, such as how they live and what they eat, over the practices of one's own social way of life. One historical example is the romanticization of the noble savage in the eighteenth century primitivism movement in European art, philosophy and ethnography. Xenocentrism can be a type of ethnocentrism, and because ethnocentrism is often characterized by a perceived superiority of one's own society over others, the two frequently stand in contrast to each other.