Word: xenophobia
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...foreign inflow has been generally well received by American businessmen, but hints of corporate xenophobia are cropping up. Last week U.S. steelmen, ignoring the enormous presence of American business round the world, began to grumble about the competition that they may face from an $18 million mini steel mill being built for a Japanese consortium in Auburn, N.Y. Yet the surge in direct foreign investment is a golden boon for the U.S. It will help offset the persistent deficit in the nation's balance of payments and provide new technology for the American economy. How do American workers shape...
...that conflict annealed the Union, it also lacerated the country so deeply that it lost hold of what Alistair Cooke called "the glory that will never be restored." World War I presented a grave shock to isolationist America. Afterward, the nation suffered what amounted to a great fever of xenophobia and anxiety, and the recovery period was appropriately dubbed the Aspirin...
...them the world's fastest-growing industrial democracy, the other its most populous and doctrinaire Communist nation-had ended "an abnormal state of affairs," as Chou put it with considerable understatement. In resuming normal relations with Tokyo, Peking put aside the last trace of the peculiar xenophobia that scarred its foreign policy during the 1960s. An the same time, the summit marked the beginning of Japan's emergence from the U.S. foreign policy umbrella that had sheltered it through the postwar era. The meetings were a reminder that the U.S.-Chinese-Soviet triangle that had shaped Asian geopolitics...
...freewheeling era of rapid shifts and realignments. In Japan, policy is not shaped by a few dynamic leaders at the top (as in Washington or Peking), but through a slow process of consensus reached within a large-and largely anonymous-Establishment. To an insular nation like Japan, where xenophobia is never far beneath the surface, the psychological alternative to the haven of a steady alliance is a return to defiant self-reliance. Sometimes they fear that, inadvertently, you may be pushing them in this direction. Already, they suspect that you regard the U.S.-Japan security treaty more as a means...
...Government's response was a classic in xenophobia...