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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
Adjective
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Some comments seen by CNN were blatantly racist or xenophobic, propagating negative stereotypes about African nations and people.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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American capital—cash held by patriotic investors—has never been more ready to help out at the waterfront.—
Craig Hooper,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Prior to 2025, his patriotic zeal had been a cornerstone of his personal brand.—
Henry Bushnell,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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One recent visitor, for example, has a Pepe the Frog avatar on X and routinely posts anti-immigrant and transphobic content.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
30 Aug. 2025
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The scholar Philip Smith shows how Paddington films released in the second decade of the twenty-first century provided Brits with a sympathetically multicultural narrative that stood in opposition to anti-immigrant discourse.—
Daniel Horowitz
August 20,
Literary Hub,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Anti-foreign.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anti-foreign. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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