Word: xenophobia
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...Here, it’s very popular to focus on race and ethnicity,” Bovenerk told me after a guest lecture I attended two weeks ago. “Xenophobia is rampant—to the point that minorities are actually afraid of deportation...
...Italy’s identity crisis has been going on for at least 15 years, if not more. Why would anti-immigration sentiment become increasingly popular and widespread now? To understand the second aspect of this xenophobia, I draw upon a lesson I learned from Ec10 (words I thought I would never write): Times of crisis, in particular slow economic growth, are bad for democracy. William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy Professor Benjamin M. Friedman’s April 6th lecture, “The Economic and Financial Crisis: Also a Moral Threat,” suggested that anti...
...lesson Obama took from his family was that the memories needed to be shared, laid out in the open as a warning to future generations. "To this day, there are those who perpetrate every form of intolerance - racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, xenophobia, sexism and more - hatred that degrades its victims and diminishes us all," he said. "This place teaches us that we must be ever vigilant about the spread of evil in our own time, that we must reject the false comfort that others' suffering is not our problem, and commit ourselves to resisting those who would subjugate others...
...international community to continue preserving and honoring the human gift of remembrance and commemoration into the future. We ask young people to carry on our struggle against Nazi ideology, and for a just, peaceful and tolerant world; a world that has no place for anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia, and right-wing extremism...
Also to this day, there are those who perpetuate every form of intolerance - racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, xenophobia, sexism, and more - hatred that degrades its victims and diminishes us all. In this century, we've seen genocide. We've seen mass graves and the ashes of villages burned to the ground; children used as soldiers and rape used as a weapon of war. This places teaches us that we must be ever vigilant about the spread of evil in our own time, that we must reject the false comfort that others' suffering is not our problem and commit ourselves...