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/Sounds like "pah" (as in "park") + "pah" (as in "park") + "nah" (as in "nacho") + "TEES" (as in "tea") + "moh" (as in "more")/

Meaning

Uncritical admiration of foreign things or famous people, the tendency to be dazzled by anything from abroad while ignoring quality at home. In Spain, papanatismo is the cultural habit of treating the foreign as automatically superior.

Examples

El papanatismo hace que compremos marcas extranjeras siendo iguales las de aquí.

Blind admiration of foreign brands makes us buy from abroad when the local ones are just as good.

There's a tremendous fascination with everything that comes from the United States.

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Regional synonyms

A fragment of pre-Hispanic ceramic or clay pottery that turns up in archaeological excavations in Mexico. The word comes from the Nahuatl "tepalli" (smooth stone) and is used in academic, museum, and archaeological contexts to refer to these ancient ceramic shards.