elsewhereism

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act or process of thinking about something other than one's immediate surroundings. uncountable
    — Indeed these old legends are in their nature subjective rather than objective, and have their roots in a primitive tendency of the human mind which might be named "elsewhereism" or " alibism."
  2. A preference for other places; a belief that things are better or more interesting elsewhere. uncountable
    — Brodber uses the most commonly recognized tropes of Caribbean discourse—and, to borrow a term from Gates's Signifying Monkey, " tropes the tropes" of exile, self-hatred, self-alienation, and longing for the sought after prestige of privileged white Otherness, elevating elsewhereism, accepting as natural a hegemonically imposed sense of historylessness, split subjectivity, dependence and psychic fragmentation.

词源

From elsewhere + -ism.
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