Nostalgie de la boue is a phrase, borrowed from the French language, which literally means "nostalgia of mud".
The metaphorical meaning of expression is "attraction to degradation or primitive". It reflects the enactment of spiritual values above peoples and cultures considered "inferior" to their own culture, usually Western. The nostalgia de la boue represents the idealization of the "far-away primitive", seen as the equivalent of the lower social classes of his country. The expression is related to the cultural current called primitivism and has many points of contact with the so-called "myth of the good wild."
Tom Wolfe made use of this expression in the Radical chic essay, referring to the fascination of the liberal American bourgeoisie towards extreme or radical movements such as the Black Panthers or the Latino Liberation Movements.
A case of nostalgia de la boue ante-litteram is the description that Christopher Columbus makes of the "savages" of Bahamas's San Salvador in his diary. Voices correlateemodify wikitesto
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