Example sentences for: xenophobia

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

  • Metric supporters also see xenophobia in Americans' distaste for a foreign system of measurement.

  • You might think that, in an age of globalization and with the United States' fate increasingly tied to the fate of other nations, the United States' best newspaper would be careful not to run articles that needlessly feed xenophobia.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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