Meaning of genophilia | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Love of one's own relations, tribe, kind or race.
   rare, uncountable
2. Love of children, or a desire to have children.
   rare, uncountable

Examples

“Although cultural Marxists have⟳ tried to extirpate it from Western man's memory, there remains the ancient, conservative notion of a nation, one rooted in ancestry, kith and kin, and genophilia.”

“Some critics have⟳ maintained that (unlike modern nationalism, which is a creation of the 19th century nation state) authentic nationalism (as the Latin 'natio' would suggest⟳) must be based in some form⟳ of genophilia and the sharing of ancestors in which sense⟳ The Vatican does not qualify⟳ as a nation-state since membership of Catholicism are scattered all over the world with no possible ties of ancestry pedigree.”

“Neocons celebrate⟳ this Marxist notion of a 'propositional nation,' because it removes the historic prerequisites of nationhood: borders, a common language, history and genealogy, blood and soil, kith and kin, and genophilia (instinctive attachment to family and tribe)”

“There are certain ethnic groups who choose⟳ to form⟳ relatively exclusive communities based on their race⟳. Most Australians are even OK with this. However, there are some who do not extend⟳ the freedom to express⟳ genophilia to white Australians.”

“The tragedy was that the narrator, lacking genophilia, or love⟳ of children, should have⟳ got his wife with child.”

“There is a suggestion that the relationship between the fertility of the women and of their parents is closer in the group practising contraception (where perhaps genetic and nurtural factors for genophilia come⟳ into play⟳).”

“Analyzing the scale "genophilia-genophobia", it should be mentioned that the vast majority of women surveyed had imagination of genophilia type⟳ (35 women - 97.2%).”

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