I’m curious, what specific examples of idealizing foreign cultures did you have in mind Laconophilia? Francophilia? Swingjugend? I’m I right in assuming the stereotype/myth of the Circassian beauty doesn’t apply? (despite being a foreign people who were widely idealized).
I suspect there are already numerous Ph.D. dissertations that have been published investigating various idealizations of foreign cultures—so sure, yes, all of those and more. I think it would take a lot of careful thinking to deconstruct a specific example and identify the contribution of culture-crossing selection effects.
I’m curious, what specific examples of idealizing foreign cultures did you have in mind Laconophilia? Francophilia? Swingjugend? I’m I right in assuming the stereotype/myth of the Circassian beauty doesn’t apply? (despite being a foreign people who were widely idealized).
I suspect there are already numerous Ph.D. dissertations that have been published investigating various idealizations of foreign cultures—so sure, yes, all of those and more. I think it would take a lot of careful thinking to deconstruct a specific example and identify the contribution of culture-crossing selection effects.