Word: xenophobia
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...outbreak of AIDS has provided a new reason for xenophobia. The press has warned Japanese to avoid intimate relations with outsiders, and fear of AIDS has prompted massage parlors, saunas and nightclubs to post signs reading FOREIGNERS PLEASE REFRAIN FROM ENTERING. Officials have drafted a bill that could deny entry to Japan to foreigners infected with the virus and deemed likely to give it to others...
ANYONE WHO has read a newspaper or magazine during the last few weeks knows that Amerika threatens to slant this country's perceptions of the Soviets and contribute to the xenophobia of our allegedly tolerant society...
...IDEA of the U.N. marching out its legal guns to castigate a television network running a fictitious show is hard to take seriously. It is almost as incredible as ABC' s decision to schedule the absurd excercise in xenophobia to begin with...
Known to its citizens as the "land of the Eagle," Albania is notable on two dubious counts: it is Europe's poorest nation and a relic of the Stalinist era. For four decades, doctrinaire Dictator Enver Hoxha ruled the country with a monomaniacal determination and a fanatical brand of xenophobia. He proclaimed Albania to be the only true Marxist-Leninist state and pursued a program of "national self-reliance" that cut off virtually all ties with East and West. The country has no diplomatic relations with either the Soviet Union or the United States...
...emergence of support for groups such as U.S.English, which proposes to make English the official language of the United States, and the associated decline of both public and private support for bilingual education symptomatic of a newly emerging xenophobia among mainstream Americans? Or is it a reaction to a genuine threat that the presence of a large Spanish-speaking minority could endanger the unity of the States and the American identity of its citizens...