Word: xenophobia
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...staccato ring of a contemporary editorial, but the words are from John Dos Passos' U.S.A., circa 1936. The outburst was triggered by the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian anarchists accused of a Massachusetts robbery and killing, and tried in the atmosphere of '20s xenophobia...
Even two weeks ago, the prospect would have seemed incredible. After years of xenophobia and anti-American fulminations, after an era in which China seemed as tightly closed to Americans as the Forbidden City ever was to outsiders-here was the Chinese Premier being amiable to Americans. Here, after years of hearing that Americans were foreign devils, were masses of schoolchildren smiling and waving to the U.S. visitors...
...China that froze most Asian capitals in the 1960s is rapidly melting away. The failures of Chinese-supported insurgencies in Indonesia and Malaysia have considerably deflated China's reputation as an international troublemaker. Moreover, since the end of the Cultural Revolution with all its attendant hysteria and xenophobia, China has steadily moved toward what Indonesia's Foreign Minister Adam Malik approvingly calls "sensible moderation...
...gung-Ho, Holy-Ho rhetoric of the New Left, Halberstam makes it clear that he admires his subject. The value of his book lies in the fact that it briskly enumerates Ho's strengths and U.S. weaknesses, Ho's sure manipulative grasp of Vietnamese xenophobia, his deceptive simplicity, as well as his complete dedication to the cause of an independent Viet...
Peyret predicts other benefits: "I don't claim that bordellos will eliminate sexual crimes, but I believe they will reduce them. Also, state establishments will permit timid young men to overcome sexual complexes." Another factor: there are 3,000,000 foreign laborers in France who suffer from French xenophobia; many Frenchwomen are reluctant to go to bed with them...