Word: xenophobia
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...Certain things are super-resistant to change, among them racism, xenophobia, bigotry. Catastrophe, however, often shines a warm light on human behavior, brings out people's best. Consider this story that touches on the scary spiral from particular to generalization - as in Osama bin Laden is a Muslim, Osama bin Laden is evil, all Muslims are evil...
...warning, which could be heeded by avoiding major bridges (although few people actually did so), the Bush administration’s warnings are difficult to act upon. They have been met not by increased caution (how can you be on more than maximum alert?) but by increased xenophobia...
Japan is as renowned for its xenophobia as its tea ceremony and flower arrangement, yet just as traditionally its writers desperately strive for a place on the wider literary playing fields abroad. They do so not only because that's where more money and greater fame lie but also because those who achieve translation are inordinately celebrated and esteemed at home. In their eagerness to secure that export seal of cultural approval they often try to style their characters according to Western fashions and modes. Or ensconce beneath their native kimonos Freudian explanations, Marxist interpretations and existential quests. But since...
Seven Senate and House hearings in the past three weeks have offered a welter of ideas for change, including a mammoth electronic database to track the comings and goings of all foreign visitors. (Such an information bank could cost $500 million, and is drawing cries of xenophobia.) Already passed in the antiterrorism package is a measure that will triple the number of immigration agents along the 4,000-mile Canadian border guarded in some places by nothing more than orange cones. Senator Edward Kennedy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary's immigration subcommittee and a longtime champion of open borders, will...
This is the process whereby victims become perpetrators. Xenophobia causes a people to turn inward and cannibalize themselves. A Muslim friend admitted to me that she was afraid of living with her own identity...