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xenophobia

[zen-uh-foh-bee-uh, zee-nuh-] / ˌzɛn əˈfoʊ bi ə, ˌzi nə- /


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The latest tensions have revived uncomfortable debates across Africa about xenophobia, migration, and the gap between pan-African rhetoric and realities facing African migrants on the continent.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

Yet I now realize that Islamophobia is real, as is xenophobia.

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2025

While he fears deportation, his bigger concern is a rise in xenophobia, which he says has already increased.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2025

Equally as edifying is Lincoln’s 1858 “electric cord” speech, which explicitly confronted Know-Nothing xenophobia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025

In the near and paranoiac past of most countries in transition, terror-filled xenophobia was both a wise survival tactic and an indoctrinated instinct.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel




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