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  • The first sign of Indophobia many of us encounter is really its own ideological defenses; phrases which are used to preempt any discussion about it, like "Indian chauvinism,""Indian supremacism,""Indian exceptionalism,""Indian victimism," or just allegations of childish over-sensitiveness coupled with some sort of vague Eastern cultural fetishism pertaining to notions of honor I have heard all of these sentiments informally or otherwise in my academic career from grad school until now.

    Vamsee Juluri: Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room Vamsee Juluri 2010

  • The first sign of Indophobia many of us encounter is really its own ideological defenses; phrases which are used to preempt any discussion about it, like "Indian chauvinism," "Indian supremacism," "Indian exceptionalism," "Indian victimism," or just allegations of childish over-sensitiveness coupled with some sort of vague Eastern cultural fetishism pertaining to notions of honor (I have heard all of these sentiments informally or otherwise in my academic career from grad school until now).

    Vamsee Juluri: Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room 2010

  • The first sign of Indophobia many of us encounter is really its own ideological defenses; phrases which are used to preempt any discussion about it, like "Indian chauvinism," "Indian supremacism," "Indian exceptionalism," "Indian victimism," or just allegations of childish over-sensitiveness coupled with some sort of vague Eastern cultural fetishism pertaining to notions of honor (I have heard all of these sentiments informally or otherwise in my academic career from grad school until now).

    Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room Vamsee Juluri 2010

  • The first sign of Indophobia many of us encounter is really its own ideological defenses; phrases which are used to preempt any discussion about it, like "Indian chauvinism," "Indian supremacism," "Indian exceptionalism," "Indian victimism," or just allegations of childish over-sensitiveness coupled with some sort of vague Eastern cultural fetishism pertaining to notions of honor (I have heard all of these sentiments informally or otherwise in my academic career from grad school until now).

    Vamsee Juluri: Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room 2010

  • He had an “over-sensitiveness” that led him “to take offense at real or supposed injustice or slight.”

    Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008

  • He had an “over-sensitiveness” that led him “to take offense at real or supposed injustice or slight.”

    Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008

  • Lord Mountclere, but to his friends assembled, whom, in her ignorance, she respected more than they deserved, and so get rid of that self-reproach which had by this time reached a morbid pitch, through her over-sensitiveness to a situation in which a large majority of women and men would have seen no falseness.

    The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

  • My complacence towards wrongs that do not touch my own case and my over-sensitiveness to those that do:

    A Diary Of Private Prayer John Baillie 1977

  • My complacence towards wrongs that do not touch my own case and my over-sensitiveness to those that do:

    A Diary Of Private Prayer John Baillie 1977

  • There is something of over-sensitiveness and over-delicacy which shows not innocence, but an inflammable imagination.

    Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series Frederick W. Robertson

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