xenophobia
fear of foreign cultures
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Broadly speaking, the Arab regions of Iraq show levels of XENOPHOBIA that are almost twice as high as those found in the Kurdish region -- even as the Kurds still show one of the world's highest levels of XENOPHOBIA compared to other countries.
(www.scienceblog.com)
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XENOPHOBIA in today's Latin America is directed against immigrants from within the region itself because they are seen by locals as a threat to employment or simply because they are poor...
(adapted from the Third World Network)
(www.scienceblog.com)
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XENOPHOBIA in today's Latin America is directed against immigrants from within the region itself because they are seen by locals as a threat to employment or simply because they are poor...
(adapted from the Third World Network)
Did you
know?
xenophobia - noun
xenophobic - adjective
- extreme dislike or fear of foreigners, their customs, their religions, etc.
xenophobe - noun
- a person who strongly dislikes or fears foreigners, their customs, their religions, etc.
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Xenophobia combines the Greek words xenos (stranger) and phobos (fear) and first entered the language around 1919. It's often thought to be synonymous with racism, but some linguists and psychologists view it in the literal sense of being afraid of something foreign or strange. This is opposed to racism, which is characterised by a discriminatory or prejudiced attitude towards people of a different race.
Phobia is used as a suffix to describe numerous fears and aversions. Nearly any kind of phobia can be created by simply adding this suffix to make a new word.
We don't have the space to list every known phobia, but we have outlined a few, some of which might be considered absurd by the general population. But for those affected by this particular fear, it's no laughing matter.
acrophobia = fear of heights
dromophobia = fear of crossing streets
ephebiphobia = fear of teenagers
ochlophobia = fear of crowds or mobs
technophobia = fear of technology
xenoglossophobia = fear of foreign languages
and finally,...
anglophobia = fear of England or English culture (we couldn't resist this one…)
teutophobia = fear of Germans or German things (we couldn't resist this one either)
(sources: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Wikipedia various phobia lists)
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
“We're a global company - xenophobia plays no part in our corporate culture”
xenophobic - adjective
- extreme dislike or fear of foreigners, their customs, their religions, etc.
xenophobe - noun
- a person who strongly dislikes or fears foreigners, their customs, their religions, etc.
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Xenophobia combines the Greek words xenos (stranger) and phobos (fear) and first entered the language around 1919. It's often thought to be synonymous with racism, but some linguists and psychologists view it in the literal sense of being afraid of something foreign or strange. This is opposed to racism, which is characterised by a discriminatory or prejudiced attitude towards people of a different race.
Phobia is used as a suffix to describe numerous fears and aversions. Nearly any kind of phobia can be created by simply adding this suffix to make a new word.
We don't have the space to list every known phobia, but we have outlined a few, some of which might be considered absurd by the general population. But for those affected by this particular fear, it's no laughing matter.
acrophobia = fear of heights
dromophobia = fear of crossing streets
ephebiphobia = fear of teenagers
ochlophobia = fear of crowds or mobs
technophobia = fear of technology
xenoglossophobia = fear of foreign languages
and finally,...
anglophobia = fear of England or English culture (we couldn't resist this one…)
teutophobia = fear of Germans or German things (we couldn't resist this one either)
(sources: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Wikipedia various phobia lists)
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
“We're a global company - xenophobia plays no part in our corporate culture”
