Example sentences for: xenophobia

How can you use “xenophobia” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To a large extent, this reflects its unbroken experience of more than four centuries of hospitality to foreigners — Chinese, Portuguese, and Dutch — during a period in Japanese history when the country was characterized by often murderous xenophobia.

  • They also call the potential prosecution a result of anti-Chinese/Taiwanese xenophobia.

  • The Chicago Tribune 's Steve Chapman concurs that steel jobs are being lost because of increased productivity: "a lot of workers simply aren't needed anymore, and no amount of xenophobia will alter that."

  • And it should remind us all that flimsy notions of the minority's eternally dual identity, whether tinged with xenophobia or candied with race pride, in the end amount to just so much double talk.

  • All told, the obstacles to intergroup harmony posed by human nature are big enough that there is little exaggeration in saying that xenophobia is a part of human nature, at least in this sense: Uncritical hostility toward an identifiable group of people--identifiable by language, dress, color, whatever--is an inherent capacity, activated under certain predictable circumstances.


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