xenophobia
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S: UNESCO – https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000142590 (last access: 1 June 2024); Eur-lex – https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/glossary/fight-against-racism-and-xenophobia.html (last access: 1 June 2024).

N: 1. 1903, from xeno- “foreign, strange” + -phobia “fear.” Earlier (c.1884) it meant “agoraphobia.”

2. Origin of XENOPHOBIA: New Latin. First Known Use: 1903.

3. Fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign.

4. Attitudes, prejudices and behaviour that reject, exclude and often vilify persons, based on the perception that they are outsiders or foreigners to the community, society or national identity.

5. Collocations:

  • to be doomed to, to embrace, to put an end to.

6. Cultural Interrelation: Manhattan Transfer (1925) by John Dos Passos (1896-1970).

S: 1. Etymonline- https://bit.ly/2FRA4UC (last access: 1 September 2014). 2 & 3. MW – https://bit.ly/1UoxlOx (last access: 20 July 2014). 4. EC – https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/xenophobia_en (last access: 1 June 2024). 5. OD – https://bit.ly/1MdYAdX (last access: 20 May 2015); GR – https://bit.ly/2Tj3DSi (last access: 20 May 2015). 6. Amazon – https://amzn.to/2DBKdCq (last access: 20 July 2014); FCB.

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CR: aporophobia, phobia, racism.