Word: megaloxenophobia
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Anti-Americanism has been a respected British attitude ever since the American Revolution, which, says Historian D. W. Brogan, was "the great defeat of the English ruling class." In recent years, the feeling has been aggravated by a condition that Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer calls megaloxenophobia - the fear or envy of The Big Stranger, i.e., the world's dominant power. But there is strong evidence that anti-Americanism is now on the wane...
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