xenophobia

as in nativism
fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners

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Recent Examples of xenophobia American liberals are quick to associate the fear of cultural corrosion with xenophobia. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025 This rhetoric has stoked xenophobia and led to a surge in anti-Asian hate crimes across the country. John Wang, New York Daily News, 2 Feb. 2025 None of them had anything of note to say, not of their communities being targeted by mass deportations under the Trump administration, or of the attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion, or of how the rise of anti-Latine and anti-immigrant xenophobia in the U.S. is harming our young people. Cristina Escobar, refinery29.com, 3 Mar. 2025 In his second term, Trump has doubled down on the cruelty and xenophobia of his first administration. Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for xenophobia
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Noun
  • The consequences of nativism and NIMBYism can be dire.
    Masha Rumer, Mercury News, 8 May 2025
  • There was not a hint of nativism about him, however.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Jews and other immigrants from southern and eastern Europe were disproportionately targeted, highlighting the cultural affinities between anti-radicalism and racial and ethnic chauvinism.
    Rick Baldoz, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The national community could be knit together without indulging the chauvinism of belligerence.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • India's jingoism and war hysteria should be a source of serious concern for the world.
    Peter Aitken Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
  • As for the Russian soldiers, their remarks are a mix of jingoism and resignation.
    Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025

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“Xenophobia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/xenophobia. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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