anti-foreign

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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. 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
Adjective
  • Video of the almost outlandishly patriotic show featured a choir, flag spinners, aerial silk performers, and live doves.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2025
  • Those include gold flourishes throughout the Oval Office, patriotic touches and massive flag poles outside.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 20 July 2025
Adjective
  • Lingering anti-immigrant discrimination, which boiled over in 2018 with the arrival of Central American caravans in Tijuana, has also been a concern.
    Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2025
  • Alongside the cost of living in the U.S. soaring with the Trump administration’s intense tariff policies, Americans are fleeing due to rising anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ+, and anti-Semitic rhetoric and policies.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 11 July 2025

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“Anti-foreign.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anti-foreign. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.

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