Meaning of Yankophilic | Babel Free

Definitions

Fond of or admiring the United States or American culture.

informal, not-comparable

Examples

“The local, predominantly white bourgeoisie tended to disparage salsa as música de monos—monkey music—just as in Puerto Rico, affluent, Yankophilic rock fans (rockeros) deprecated salsa lovers by the similarly racist term cocolos (loosely, “coconut-heads”).”

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