xenophobic

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The Continent “produced the genius of Mozart and Beethoven,” and it isn’t narrow or xenophobic to feel pride in this; it is a just self-respect without which you won’t be able to continue in history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

At her next daily press conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum condemned the violence as "xenophobic".

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2025

That year also witnessed the death of 85-year-old former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and the passage of the Hart-Celler Immigration Act that abolished the xenophobic quota system put in place in the 1920s.

From Slate • Jan. 26, 2025

This explosion has provoked a cultural backlash and xenophobic outbursts against immigrants trying to integrate into Colombian society, said Ronald Rodríguez, a researcher and spokesperson for the Venezuela Observatory.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2023

In the early 1990s, Albania ended 46 years of xenophobic Communist rule and established a multiparty democracy.

From The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency