Word: xenophobia
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Lawrence Sullivan, research associate with the John T. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, said the chaos in China may reawaken the country's dormant xenophobia. "Just because we establish relations with China doesn't mean it disappears," he said, adding that in times of crisis China often tries to close off its society from contact with the outside world...
...thing, I got a pretty good course in comparative religion -- all based on xenophobia. And since I felt on the fringe anyway, people's approval never mattered to me much. In fact, I thought it was my God-given mission to shock and upset people. I was always smart. I always knew what to say. When I was eight, I'd go around to churches talking about being a Mormon and a Jew. They call it manipulation when women do it. With men, they call it will...
...contrast to South Africa, the Church document cites the United States as a place where society has "found increased vitality in the melting pot cultures." But the document also points to latent racial tensions in American society that express themselves when "exaggerated nationalism" degenerates into "xenophobia or even racial hatred...
Some sinologists find it difficult to understand what China could gain by permitting open displays of xenophobia. But one Chinese foreign policy expert offered a pragmatic geopolitical explanation: "As of ten years ago, we changed our policy and normalized relations with the U.S.," he said. "Soon we will also normalize our relations with the U.S.S.R. So the relative importance of the African countries to China is diminishing." There is little in that view to reassure anyone worried about future anti-African resentment...
...standing at the head of his ticket, George Bush told the country that he wanted a "kinder, gentler nation." He then commenced a campaign of unparalleled viciousness, appealing to precisely those undertones of racism and xenophobia, mean spiritedness and selfishness that have become ever more visible in the last eight years...