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Xenophobia (from Ancient Greek: ξένος , 'strange, foreign, or alien', and φόβος (phóbos), 'fear') [1] is the fear or dislike of anything that is perceived as being foreign or strange.
Xenophobia in the United States is the fear or hatred of any cultural group in the United States that is perceived as being foreign or strange or un-American. It expresses a conflict between an ingroup and an outgroup and may manifest in suspicion by the one of the other's activities, and beliefs and goals.
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
Xenophobia – Irrational fear or hatred of foreigners, strangers or the unknown, sometimes used to describe anti-immigration nationalistic political beliefs and movements Oikophobia - Irrational fear or hatred of one's home, home country, or home culture
About Category:Xenophobia and related categories: This category's scope contains articles about Xenophobia, which may be a contentious label Wikimedia Commons has media related to Xenophobia . Look up Xenophobia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
"Xenophobia in Higher Education in South Africa." in Impact of Immigration and Xenophobia on Development in Africa (IGI Global, 2021) pp. 173–187. Neocosmos, Michael. From ‘Foreign Natives’ to ‘Native Foreigners’: Explaining Xenophobia in Post-apartheid South Africa, Citizenship and Nationalism, Identity and Politics (2010).
The xenophobia towards mainland Chinese is reported to be particularly severe compared to other foreign residents, [106] as they are generally looked down on as country bumpkins and blamed for stealing desirable jobs and driving up housing prices. [107]
Xenophobia is the fear of people who are different from one's self. Xenophobia or Xenophobe may also refer to: Xenophobia (Why?), a 1988 rock album;