Oikophobia

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Ecophobia; fear of a home environment. uncountable
  2. 2
    Dislike of one's own culture or compatriots. uncountable

    "So, unlike the 60s, you have a dynamic in which both sides are behaving like radicals, in which the establishment isn’t yelling “stop,” and in which oikophobia is more evenly distributed, relative to its Boomer-era baseline."

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ecophobia

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"So, unlike the 60s, you have a dynamic in which both sides are behaving like radicals, in which the establishment isn’t yelling “stop,” and in which oikophobia is more evenly distributed, relative to its Boomer-era baseline."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos) + -phobia. In the political sense, coined in a 1993 journal article by Roger Scruton.

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