Word: xenophobia
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...hope that in the future this writer looks more into his own heritage and thinks hard before perpetuating such damaging generalizations, especially in this time of the renewed rise of fascism, xenophobia and especially anti-Semitism in Europe. Dunster Christmas Tree Decorator
...incident -- the latest in a year that has seen 1,800 acts of xenophobia -- was horrifying, both in its own right and as a harbinger of things to come. Since the attack was directed against Turkish resident workers, more than 1.7 million of whom currently live in Germany, it stoked fears that the far right was lengthening its list of enemies beyond asylum seekers...
Participants held signs with messages in Germanand English reading "No to Neo-fascism" and "Forthe Victims of Xenophobia, We Remember...
...this year, 300,000 German demonstrators -- nearly four times the number expected -- converged in Berlin's Lustgarten to rally for goodwill. But in full view of world media, the demonstration turned into an ugly spectacle of egg-splatting, paint-bombing counterprotest -- staged not by the neo-Nazi right, whose xenophobia prompted the march in the first place, but by some 400 left-wing anarchists. Chancellor Helmut Kohl was forced to abandon the procession shortly after beginning it. More enduring was the image of Germany's distinguished President, Richard von Weizsacker, his coat splotched by eggs, wanly shouting a message...
Above all, the federal government needs to find more effective economic strategies to ease the hopelessness that afflicts the young in the east. And Bonn will have to stop treating the violence as a public relations problem. In seeing xenophobia and racism for the evils they are, the Kohl government can begin to follow the lead of the hundreds of thousands who gathered peacefully in the streets of Berlin...