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xenophobia

[ zen-uh-foh-bee-uh, zee-nuh- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

an aversion or hostility to, disdain for, or fear of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers:
Xenophobia and nationalism can be seen as a reaction to the rise of globalization.
fear or dislike of the customs, dress, etc., of people who are culturally different from oneself:
Learning a foreign language can help to overcome xenophobia.

xenophobia

/ ˌzɛnəˈfəʊbɪə /

xenophobia

An unreasonable fear, distrust, or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or anything perceived as foreign or different.

First recorded in 1890–95; xeno- “foreign, strange” + -phobia “fear”

These groups are generally united in their thuggery and xenophobia.

Since then, a bitter xenophobia has emerged in Odessa just as it has in cities across eastern Ukraine.

We will give up and stop any manifestations of chauvinism and xenophobia.

Pakistan needs a change of direction away from the xenophobia and paranoia fed by its controlling army.

Violent xenophobia and bigotry are just part of the conversation.

What in the West they esteem as national sentiment, in the East they consider xenophobia.'

This intuition, it seems, is based less on statistics than on plain old xenophobia.

This xenophobia is a remarkably constant feature of eighteenth-century satire on "taste."

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