Word: xenophobia
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This was never going to be an easy conference," said Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as she spoke in Durban last week at the opening session of the U.N. Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. That was an understatement. The conference was a disgrace. It was a disgrace in conception--in the very idea that a few days of talk could lead to any useful action directed against a scourge that diminishes the lives of millions--and it was a disgrace in execution. The only good thing that might conceivably come...
...Ever since the first Americans started playing in Japan, their presence has been controversial. Many bristled at the strict training regimen. Umpires and coaches often were harder on them. Fans expected them to hit home runs every time they came to the plate. And sometimes xenophobia reared its head. "The fans in Osaka are great," says Rhodes. "But away from home, yeah, I hear it all the time: 'We hate you Americans! Go home to America!' It doesn't bother...
...surprise that the international community is having a little trouble agreeing on an agenda for a U.N. conference on racism in South Africa later this month.The event's spectacularly turgid title - the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance - captures some of the difficulty in achieving a consensus even over what to discuss, and, inevitably, to disagree...
...History warns that revolution lurks within these "contradictions," but history also reminds us how beleaguered regimes have traditionally dealt with the volcano inside. The classic prescription is to "busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels," as Shakespeare's Henry IV told his successor. It is hyper-nationalism and xenophobia that fuses regime and people, rich and poor, losers and winners in one Great National Whole. Jingoism is the traditional antidote against discontent and revolt, and the Chinese have been made to lap from this fount aplenty. Remember the week-long war of the aroused masses against the U.S. diplomatic compound...
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