Word: xenophobia
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...fear itself"), metaphor ("Just the kiss of the hops"), metonymy ("The full dinner pail"), parody (a Norwegian travel folder promises "a Fjord in Your Future"), and punning ("Every litter bit helps"). By using what semanticists call "affective" language, many slogans deliberately exploit chauvinism ("Made in Texas by Texans"), xenophobia ("Yankee go home"), insecurity ("Even your best friends won't tell you"), narcissism ("Next to myself I like B.V.D. best"), escapism ("I dreamed I barged down the Nile in my Maidenform...
Sears, with Credit. Despite diversified agriculture and abundant natural resources (notably, bauxite, iron, diamonds), Strongman Touré's blend of xenophobia and socialism saddled the country with severe food shortages, inflation and gaping trade deficits. The trouble, as one Western visitor puts it, is that Guinea's government has long viewed foreign aid as "one big Sears, Roebuck store, with unlimited credit...
...charges that he is an American lackey, at the same time is telling the U.S. that the Philippines must not be taken for granted. He is also seeking, says a U.S. observer, to give his own people a greater sense of "national dignity and identity, rather than hostility or xenophobia...
...Long a vociferous critic of Ford and General Motors for their way of operating abroad through directly owned subsidiaries, American Motors President George Romney, 54, ardently argues that to avoid stirring up xenophobia abroad, U.S. corporations should move into foreign markets unobtrusively in cooperation with local businessmen. True to his credo, Romney will now enter the Common Market in a cooperative deal that requires no capital investment by him. Beginning next month, France's government-owned Renault auto company will start building the Rambler Classic in its Belgian plant. Major parts will be shipped from A.M.C...
Addicts of oldfashioned, interstellar escape are appalled to find considerable philosophizing in the newer works about man's fate, first causes and the like, taking the place of chromium-plated maidens riding fintail time machines. A remarkable development charted by Amis is that xenophobia seems to be dwindling; extraterrestrial races were once generally loathsome, but now most of them are a good deal more mannerly than human beings. A wry corollary is the now typical story of Earthlings, as far advanced scientifically as they are retarded morally, who burst BEM-like upon the ancient, saintly and helpless squid-creatures...