Word: xenophobia
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There was another side to the Argentines' sense of national unity and purpose: a growing xenophobia directed not only against the British but against Americans. Those onetime friends were no longer as popular as they were before the U.S. announced its support for Britain on April 30. While there were remarkably few reports of personal mistreatment of either Britons or Americans living in Argentina, the signs of ill feeling were unmistakable. The Argentine magazine Tal Cual lampooned British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as a "pirate, witch and assassin." Radio stations were playing fewer English and American records. The Franco...
...land beyond the Golden Door, the nation whose Statue of Liberty has beckoned generations of "huddled masses yearning to breathe free"-can no longer afford such generosity. Those huddled masses, it is feared, are robbing native Americans of jobs, straining community services and provoking new excesses of bigotry and xenophobia across the U.S. In Texas, for instance, Vietnamese refugees operating shrimp boats in Galveston Bay have stirred resentment among local fishermen and received threats from the Ku Klux Klan. Three of the refugees' boats have caught fire; though arson is suspected, no arrests have been made...
...their own frenetic fashion. Scenes of furious violence are undercut by his reluctance to leave the action before every angle has been explored. The result is a collection of brilliant scenes which don't seem to be related in time. Playwright David Mamet has taken most of the xenophobia and complication out of Cain's novel, and left in their places huge gaps for Rafelson to muse over. But one suspects Rafelson didn't even notice...
...only 35 years ago and we have had to rebuild Eastern Europe and provide for our defense first," is the common rebuttal to any attack on the Soviets' ailing economy. But in choosing this method to justify their regime, the Politburo is forced to continue the paranoia and xenophobia of a war atmosphere. The enemy is NATO, China and the CIA. TASS depicts the United States as obsessed with disrupting the Soviet way of life. The Soviets are told that we spend twice what they do on armaments, and most believe...
...firm: "People are so hateful without really knowing me. It affects everything I do, from writing checks in a supermarket to making reservations at a restaurant." Adds Ron, 36, an attorney with a public interest law firm: "The reaction has only demonstrated the need to challenge head-on this xenophobia and greed...