Words similar to xenophobia
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.
So if you go to a concert today, you’ll sense the drama of recovery from mad xenophobia.
Corriere della Sera of Milan, in a front-page editorial, compared favorably the German government's well-prepared and well-argued proposal (although rejected by the voters of Hesse) to grant German citizenship to more than half its 7 million resident foreigners with the Italian government's sudden immigration decree which, it said, could generate xenophobia and racism.
All seems orderly and timeless, just as the Tokugawa--with their xenophobia and rigid social class boundaries--wanted it.
For a variety of reasons, language has come to stand in for other issues: It can mask xenophobia, signal patriotism, or reveal membership in an elite or a stigmatized group.
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