Kartvelophile
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The British singer and songwriter Ian Gillan and his wife Bron, dressed in Georgian national costumes, in Tbilisi during Gillan's 1990 visit to the Soviet Union.
A Kartvelophile (Georgian: ქართველოფილი) is a person who is fond of, admires or loves Georgian culture, Georgian history, Georgian language, Georgian cuisine, Georgian people or Georgia in general or even exhibits Georgian nationalism in spite of not being an ethnic Georgian. Such love of Georgia and everything Georgian is called "Kartvelophilia". Its opposite is Kartvelophobia.
Typical interests[]
- Georgian wine
- Georgian cuisine
- Georgian language
- Georgian scripts
- Georgian calligraphy
Notable Kartvelophiles[]
- Jean Chardin[citation needed]
- Alexandre Dumas[citation needed]
- Mihály Zichy[citation needed]
- Heinrich Böll[citation needed]
- Marjory Wardrop[citation needed]
- Oliver Wardrop[citation needed]
- Marie-Félicité Brosset[citation needed]
- Michael McFaul[1]
- Federico Fellini[citation needed]
- Francis Ford Coppola[2]
- Anastasia Zavorotnyuk[3]
- Victoria Lopyreva[4]
- Eldar Ryazanov[5]
- Hugo Huppert
See also[]
References[]
- ^ The Georgia Syndrome by James Traub, Aug 13, 2010
- ^ Фрэнсис Форд Коппола любит грузинскую кухню и не любит 3D
- ^ Звезды шоу бизнеса любят грузинскую кухню!
- ^ ГЕНАЦВАЛЕ. Виктория Лопырёва
- ^ "Эльдар Рязанов: «Я люблю Грузию»". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
Categories:
- Culture of Georgia (country)
- Admiration of foreign cultures
- Orientalism by type