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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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By all means, speak up and let these homophobic and xenophobic relatives know their posts have affected you.—
Jeanne Phillips,
Mercury News,
26 Sep. 2025
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He was also known for his sometimes controversial opinions, which some considered misogynistic, xenophobic and racist.—
Victoria Moorwood,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
22 Sep. 2025
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Many of the racist, nativist vulgarities spoken out loud in Paul Thomas Anderson’s marvelous new film One Battle After Another evoke sentiments that, in our world, first fomented online.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Sep. 2025
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New York still needs such a place, even with a nativist-in-chief in the White House.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
9 Sep. 2025
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Fox News has since the start of 2024 made a priority of finding independent companies that often spotlight patriotic themes or other elements that might appeal to its core viewers, then lined them up to sponsor its programs.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
29 Sep. 2025
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The timing coincided with government calls for patriotic displays during independence celebrations, sharpening the contrast between official nationalism and grassroots dissent.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
24 Sep. 2025
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Trump is the most anti-immigrant President of our lifetime—not just in his desire to build a wall but emotionally anti-immigrant.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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Far-right and anti-immigrant groups targeted Chobani for employing refugees.—
Emily Barnes,
USA Today,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Anti-foreign.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anti-foreign. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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