Word: xenophobia
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...said many undergraduates' complaints about foreign teachers stemmed from xenophobia and racism rather than legitimate difficulties with their TF's English...
...Xenophobia and racism can also play a part in undergraduates' dismissal of teachers from other countries, graduate students...
...fundamental issue regarding the unadulterated bigotry of Khallid Abdul Muhammad, the anti-Semitic claims of Minister Louis Farrakhan and the vicious demonization of both black Islamic fellow citizens by the mainstream media is -- how do we talk about and fight all forms of xenophobia in American life? So far, we have failed miserably. Instead we have become even more polarized, owing to our distrust of one another and our flagrant disregard for the transformative possibilities of high-quality public conversation...
...question also attempts to set the terms of the discussion, to base a discussion of racial conflict solely on African-American xenophobia. Like all litmus tests, this one is reductive and promotes self-defense rather than thought and disclosure. Black anti-Semitism, which does exist, along with any specific analysis of historical issues between blacks and Jews, remains a complex area that African Americans do not even feel comfortable to debate in public. Some who might give black views on our separate and unequal assimilation in America and our unequal positions today with regard to opportunity, respect and power...
More than 100 million people around the world are currently displaced from their native land. Europe's xenophobia can only mean that more of them will want to come to the U.S. That is all the more reason for Americans to spend some time debating how many of them they are willing to take...