xenophobia

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"We are concerned at the trend of racism and xenophobia which is resulting in a continuing rise in racial attacks," a delegate from South Africa, which often backs Russia, said during a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

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  • It's the asylum seekers who look around for some­thing better that choose George gave a disheartened shrug as if his xenophobia was not new to her. —  Disordered Minds
  • I am weary of the over-the-top chest-puffing machismo and misogyny, xenophobia, and militarism that plagues much of modern rap / bling-hop. —  Blogtimore, Hon
  • The political passions that Benda most feared when he wrote his book were nationalism, xenophobia, and anti-Semitism, which then had plenty of intellectual apologists, and which indeed soon proved cataclysmic in their effects; but really he was defending the autonomy of intellectual and artistic life from political imperatives. —  City Journal
  • And the seriousness of the problem that the conference was addressed to tackle -- anti-racism and xenophobia, and all manners of discrimination -- was also largely drowned out by legitimate, if outsized, concerns of even greater hostility toward Israel this time around. —  UN Dispatch
  • And it's okay to turn our cultural anxieties about not being the Number One Superpower into outright xenophobia, and it's acceptable to hate when you feel like somebody else is downsizing your dick. —  Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture
 

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