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==Etymology==

The word is derived from the [[Latin]] word ''[[Angles (tribe)|Anglii]]'' and [[Ancient Greek]] word φίλος ''philos'', meaning "friend". Its [[antonym]] is [[Anglophobia|Anglophobe]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language |title=Anglophobe |url=https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=Anglophobe |access-date=13 June 2016 |edition=5th |year=2015 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt}}</ref>

 

 

 

 

===''Anglomanie''===

 

The ''Lettres philosophiques'' first introduced the French to British writers and thinkers such as [[Jonathan Swift]], [[Isaac Newton]] and [[William Shakespeare]], who before then had been barely known in France.{{sfn|Buruma|1998|p=38}} The success of ''Lettres philosophiques'' and the resulting wave of ''Anglomanie'' made all things English the rage in France, with English food, English styles and English gardens being especially popular.{{sfn|Buruma|1998|p=38}} Ultimately, the popularity of ''Anglomanie'' led to a backlash, with H. L. Fougeret de Monbron publishing ''Préservatif contre l'anglomanie'' (''The Antidote to Anglomania'') in 1757, in which he argued for the superiority of French culture and attacked British democracy as mere "mobocracy".{{sfn|Buruma|1998|p=41}}

The diplomat, economist and politician [[Čedomilj Mijatović]] became an Anglophile after marrying a British woman, Elodie Lawton, in 1864.{{sfn|Markovich|2009|p=104}} In 1884 to 1886, 1895 to 1900 and 1902– to 1903, Mijatović was the Serbian minister in London, and he became much involved in cultural activities there and liked Britain so much he lived in London from 1889 to his death in 1932.{{sfn|Markovich|2009|p=105}} He was the most prolific translator of British books into [[Serbo-Croatian]] and wrote six books in English.{{sfn|Markovich|2009|pp=105–106}} Mijatović believed that Britain had much to teach Serbia and preferred to translate books into Serbo-Croatian that promoted liberal values.{{sfn|Markovich|2009|p=105}} Such was Mijatović's liberalism that when he attended the Hague Peace Conference in 1899 representing Serbia, he attempted to have the delegates representing the Asian states serve as the vice-presidents of the various sections of the conference to provide for a degree of equality between the Europeans and the Asians. His proposal was roundly rejected.{{sfn|Markovich|2009|p=108}} In 1912, Mijatović attributed his cosmopolitan liberalism to living in London and wrote to a friend in Serbia, "I am an old man indeed, but it seems that there have never been in my heart livelier and more generous sympathies not only for the interests and progress of our Serbia, but also for the interests and progress of the world. In London a man cannot but feel like 'a citizen of the world', cannot fail to see higher, broader and wider horizons".{{sfn|Markovich|2009|pp=111–112}} Like many other Balkan Anglophiles, Mijatović wished for a union between the Eastern Orthodox and Anglican Churches, and in his politics, he was much influenced by Gladstone.{{sfn|Markovich|2009|pp=111–112}} Mijatović also wrote twenty novels in Serbian, all of them historical novels inspired by Mijatović's favourite writer, Sir [[Walter Scott]].{{sfn|Markovich|2009|p=112}}

 

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===In Eastern Asia===

 

 

Sangjoe complained that the Shan had stayed loyal to the British during World War II and waged a guerilla struggle against the Japanese, but the Burmens had collaborated with the Japanese. Sengjoe accused the British of betraying the Shan by including them in Burma, a state dominated by chauvinist Burmen nationalists, who had all been willing collaborators with the Japanese and wanted to wreak vengeance against those had fought against them in the war.<ref>Cox, Christopher ''Chasing the Dragon: Into the Heart of the Golden Triangle'', New York: Holt Paperbacks 1997 pages 198199.</ref>

Brazilian intellectual figure [[Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira]] was another well-known Anglophile however his Anglophilia was unlike that of Freyre. Oliveira's Anglophilia was rooted in the conservative tradition, akin to that of [[Hippolyte Taine]]. His highest expression of this is in his short letter, 'Vocations of the European Peoples'.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.traditioninaction.org/OrganicSociety/A_006_Vocations_PCO.htm | title=Vocations of the European Peoples by Plinio Correa de Oliveira }}</ref>

 

 

===American Janeites===

Irvine argued for a long time that many Americans had a nostalgia for the ordered society that existed in the South prior to the Civil War, as manifested in the popularity of the novel and film versions of ''Gone With The Wind'', but that as that society was based on slavery, expressing nostalgia for the old South has been unfashionable since the civil rights movement of the 1950s–60s.<ref name="Irvine, Robert pages 159-160">Irvine, Robert ''Jane Austen'', London: Routledge, 2005 pages 159–160.</ref> As such, Irvine argued that film adaptations of Austen novels offered the best compensation for Americans who have a nostalgia for an ordered society, since the memory of Regency Britain does not carry the loaded offensive political and racial connotations that the memory of the old South does.<ref name="Irvine, Robert pages 159-160"/> Irvine argued that unlike in Britain, the popularity of Austen films in America, which started in the 1990s, is seen as part of a "conservative cultural agenda", as admiration of Austen is regarded as a part of the "cultural capital" of American elites.<ref name="Irvine, Robert page 159"/> However, Irvine argued that one should not be too quick to attribute the popularity of Austen in America to an "implicitly racist Anglophilia".<ref name="Irvine, Robert pages 159-160"/>

 

 

Noting that Janeites (as fans of Austen are known) tend to be women, Irvine commented that Austen films starting with the 1995 adaptation of ''Pride and Prejudice'' have with remarkable consistency "cater[ed] to female desires and the female gaze" by depicting handsome actors wearing tight-fitting clothing and breeches in an "era when men could still be the locus of the beautiful".<ref name="Irvine, Robert page 152">Irvine, Robert ''Jane Austen'', London: Routledge, 2005 page 152.</ref> Irvine maintained that Austen films are meant to please female viewers by depicting the male body in a way normally associated with the female body and male viewers.<ref name="Irvine, Robert page 152"/> Irvine wrote that the appeal of characters like [[Mr. Darcy]] is that of "absolute and unconditioned male need for a woman", which many women on both sides of the Atlantic find very attractive.<ref name="Irvine, Robert page 152"/> Finally, Irvine argued that a major part of the appeal of Austen is that her stories feature heroines living in a patriarchal society where the chief purpose of women is to be wives and mothers (thus making a woman's worth mainly dependent on her marriageability) who have to navigate complex social rules to assert themselves and marry the right man: stories that women find as relevant today as in the 19th century.<ref name="Irvine, Robert page 152"/>

==Notable Anglophiles==

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* [[Esperanza Aguirre]], Spanish politician<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lasexta.com/noticias/nacional/aguirre-favor-dar-toque-british-politica-espanola_201403145726b2cd6584a81fd884667c.html|title=Aguirre se define a sí misma como anglomaníaca, admiradora de la cultura sajona|date=March 14, 2014|website=LaSexta}}</ref>

* [[Drew Barrymore]], American actress<ref name="anglotopia2" />

* [[Justin Bieber]], Canadian singer<ref name="BBC2">[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2ML5Wdsv2kGJ8cQ4kHCGHVX/6-stars-who-are-massive-anglophiles "6 Stars Who Are Massive Anglophiles."] ''[[BBC]]''. Retrieved 8 November 2021.</ref>

* [[Kim Cattrall]], English-Canadian actress<ref name="anglotopia2" />

* [[Tom Clancy]], American writer<ref name="anglotopia" />

* [[Cameron Diaz]], American actress<ref name="heart" />

* [[Jason Donovan]], Australian actor and singer<ref name="heart" />

* [[Drake (musician)|Drake]], Canadian rapper<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jul/19/why-drake-fell-in-love-with-the-uk-and-vice-versa|title=Why Drake fell in love with the UK (and vice versa)|date=19 July 2018|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=8 December 2021}}</ref>

* [[Kirsten Dunst]], American actress<ref name="anglotopia2" />

* [[Maggie Grace]], American actress<ref name="anglotopia2" />

* [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]], American actress<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-28089570 |title=Maggie: 'I am a complete Anglophile' |website=BBC |date=1 July 2014 }}</ref>

* [[Charlton Heston]], American actor<ref name="anglotopia" />

* [[Kate Hudson]], American actress<ref name="heart" />

* [[Jennifer Lawrence]], American actress<ref name="BBC2" />

* [[Martin Lee]], Hong Kong politician and barrister<ref name="reuters.com"/>

* [[Lee Kuan Yew]], Singaporean Prime Minister<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/obituary/2015/03/22/lee-kuan-yew|title=Lee Kuan Yew|date=22 March 2015|access-date=8 December 2021|newspaper=[[The Economist]]}}</ref>

* [[Lorde]], New Zealand singer<ref name="BBC2" />

* [[Elle Macpherson]], Australian model<ref name="heart" />

* [[Rachel McAdams]], Canadian actress<ref name="heart">{{Cite web|url=https://www.heart.co.uk/showbiz/celebs-who-love-uk/|title=Celebrities Who Love the UK|website=Heart.co.uk|access-date=8 December 2021}}</ref>

* [[Elizabeth McGovern]], American actress<ref name="anglotopia3" />

* [[Gwyneth Paltrow]], American actress<ref name="anglotopia" />

* [[Katy Perry]], American singer<ref name="BBC2" />

* [[Brad Pitt]], American actor<ref name="heart" />

* [[Rihanna]], Barbadian singer<ref name="heart" />

* [[David Schwimmer]], American actor<ref name="Guardian">{{Cite news|url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/shortcuts/2020/feb/11/the-new-anglophilia-why-the-us-is-going-wild-for-english-accents-and-culture|title=The new anglophilia: Why the US is going wild for English accents and culture|date=11 February 2020|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=8 December 2021}}</ref>

* [[Kevin Spacey]], American actor<ref name="anglotopia2" />

* [[Britney Spears]], American singer<ref name="heart" />

* [[Gwen Stefani]], American singer<ref name="anglotopia3" />

* [[Kristen Stewart]], American actress<ref name="heart" />

* [[Quentin Tarantino]], American filmmaker<ref name="heart" />

* [[Elizabeth Taylor]], English-American actress<ref name="heart" />

* [[will.i.am]], American rapper<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/will-ams-weird-tribute-british-culture-shows-hes-not-quite-drake-level-anglophile-2033911|title=will.i.am's weird tribute to 'British culture' shows he's not quite a Drake-level Anglophile|website=Nme.com|date=5 April 2017|access-date=8 December 2021}}</ref>

* [[Hayley Williams]], American singer<ref name="BBC2" />

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*[[Australophile]]

*[[British Invasion]]

*[[Culture of England]]

*[[Culture of the United Kingdom]]

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*[http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/23/anglophenia.jsp Anglophenia – Anglophile Blog from BBC America]

*[http://www.smittenbybritain.com Smitten by Britain – Anglophile and Britophile blog]

*[https://theanglophilechannel.com/ The Anglophile Channel]

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