As of 2019, Starbucks opens a new store every 15 hours in China. The coffee chain has grown by 700% over the past decade.
NEOPHILIA
Etymology
Noun
neophilia (usually uncountable, plural neophilias)
The love of novelty, new things, innovation, or unfamiliar places or situations.
Antonyms: neophobia, traditionalism, cainophobia, cainotophobia, misoneism
(biology) The preference for any new foods not forming part of the diet associated with an earlier nutritional deficiency or other illness.
Coordinate term: paleophobia
Source: Wiktionary
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EVANGELICAL
(adjective) of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament
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