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Recent Examples of anti-foreign
Dutch Restrictions While across Europe anti-foreign sentiment keeps rising, limitations on foreign students are perhaps nowhere more striking than in the Netherlands, where a coalition supported by the far right has pushed a policy to restrict foreign students’ access to Dutch universities.
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Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 17 Aug. 2024
The Wall Street Journal reported last August that the company was under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission into whether its imports of monkeys violate anti-foreign bribery laws.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 4 June 2024
For Americans, the appeal of visiting China has dimmed under Mr. Xi, an authoritarian leader who has stoked anti-foreign sentiment.
—Vivian Wang, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
Demilitarizing those areas now would mean surrendering the CCP’s solemn mission to make China whole again and, consequently, diminishing its ability to use anti-foreign nationalism as a source of legitimacy.
—Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
This kind of nationalism is often a mixture of utopianism and anti-foreign sentiment, elements shared by the movement that birthed the Chinese Communist Party.
—Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022
Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 17 Aug. 2024
The Wall Street Journal reported last August that the company was under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission into whether its imports of monkeys violate anti-foreign bribery laws.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 4 June 2024
For Americans, the appeal of visiting China has dimmed under Mr. Xi, an authoritarian leader who has stoked anti-foreign sentiment.
—Vivian Wang, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
Demilitarizing those areas now would mean surrendering the CCP’s solemn mission to make China whole again and, consequently, diminishing its ability to use anti-foreign nationalism as a source of legitimacy.
—Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
This kind of nationalism is often a mixture of utopianism and anti-foreign sentiment, elements shared by the movement that birthed the Chinese Communist Party.
—Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anti-foreign
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And God Created Woman, but in recent years, Bardot sparked controversy due to some of her more troubling opinions and faced legal troubles over racist and xenophobic comments.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
7 Jan. 2026
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His actions have struck many Americans as racist and xenophobic.—
Michael Scherer,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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As in America, nativist anxieties have accelerated a reactionary political movement.—
Colton Valentine,
New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2026
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For a local political aspirant seeking to burnish her nativist credentials, the chance to trigger an international incident was apparently irresistible.—
Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
18 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Biel joked of their patriotic accessories.—
Andrea Wurzburger,
PEOPLE,
31 Jan. 2026
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The team will also give away three kinds of hats — a waffle beanie, a western snapback and a home-and-away bucket hat — as well as an opening series scarf, a 1998 belt bag, a puffer vest, a patriotic aloha shirt, a poncho and a superhero pocket tee.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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The anti-immigrant and racist sentiments that dominated the show came naturally to Neff.—
Jason Zengerle,
New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2026
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But the party was badly beaten in 2024, is facing a growing challenge from the anti-immigrant Reform, and may be in terminal decline.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
19 Jan. 2026
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“Anti-foreign.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anti-foreign. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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