Word: xenophobia
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...ultimate purpose of the "invidious" nationality quotas, he declared was to perptuate the Anglo-Saxon, Nordic character of the American population. "If there was justification for this act in the xenophobia of 1924, there is no longer such an excuse," he said...
Kill That Tiger! The xenophobia that in 1793 led the Emperor Ch'ien Lung to consider British Ambassador Lord Macartney a "Red barbarian bearing tribute," is still very much alive in China. "Westerners," says Foreign Minister Chen Yi, smiling faintly, "used to say Chinese were dirty. We were called an inferior race. Are we inferior...
...Franco, Franco, Franco!" The U.N. resolution, seized upon by Franco's expert propaganda machine, appealed to the xenophobia in every Spaniard. Many rallied to the Chief of State just to confound the foreigners who were trying to tell Spaniards what...
...Vermonters have had much to do with Negroes. In East Fairfield (pop. 475), only one child in the vacation Bible school had ever even seen one. But the Vermonters' native xenophobia was rapidly overcome by the little black visitors' good behavior and good nature. They lived and played with their hosts' children, were well behaved at table, did not suffer from shyness or homesickness, were soon calling their hosts "Uncle" and "Aunt," sometimes...
Good God! Congress, however, was held in session long enough for the Senate to approve the Hoover Moratorium whereunder 15 nations are relieved of paying the U. S. $252.566,803 on War Debts between July 1, 1931 and June 30, 1932. Xenophobia reached its peak when Senator Johnson of California, the Moratorium's arch foe, oratorically machine-gunned the Senate...