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Xenophobia
"Xenophobia" in a Sentence (13 examples)
I have xenophobia.
This is nothing more than xenophobia.
Xenophobia is a widespread attitude in ghettos.
They tried to hide their xenophobia.
Through his ill-advised pronouncements and actions, Tom has laid the ground for intolerance and xenophobia within his circle of friends.
Xenophobia is a waste of energy that could be spent on far more useful endeavors.
Trump is known for his xenophobia.
"Marko, what's the Yellow Peril?" "Dennis, it's xenophobia!"
Have you experienced xenophobia?
Humanitarian organizations fear the ongoing impasse and the hostile rhetoric could heighten local xenophobia.
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The great sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism both fall under “allosemitism”: literally Othering the Jew. He defined it not as resentment of what is different, which is xenophobia, but rather of what defies order and clear categories. In 1997, he wrote, “The Jew is ambivalence incarnate. And ambivalence is ambivalence mostly because it cannot be contemplated without ambivalent feeling: it is simultaneously attractive and repelling.”
The United States is not the only country where xenophobia pays dividends for politicians.
Like the Communist party before it, the Front National claimed to speak for the “working class”. The class enemy was rebranded from “bourgeoisie” to “elite”, communist xenophobia about “international capital” was supplemented with xenophobia against immigrants, and the proletariat had to ally with former adversaries such as small business owners, but the essential claim of working-class dignity remained intact.
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