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xenophobia

Noun

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A hatred of strangers or foreigners.

A fear of strangers or foreigners.

A strong antipathy or aversion to strangers or foreigners.

A fear of aliens.

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As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. Eric Hobsbawm

Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle. Eric Hobsbawm

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts. Hans Küng

People don't really want change, any change at all - and xenophobia is very deep-rooted. But we progress, as we must - if we are to go out to the stars. Robert A. Heinlein

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive. Lawrence M. Krauss

Religion and xenophobia go together like hot dogs and mustard. Jerry Coyne

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