Xenophobia

at the stroke of the gavel, Mr. Tomekichi Homma and thousands of disenfranchised Canadians lost their right to vote. In the early 20th century there was virtually no support from the political establishment to expand voting rights to minorities. Xenophobia dominated the minds of many white Canadians coupled with the fear that their economic security would be at peril unless the minorities were kept at bay. On the merits of the Qualification and Registration of Voters Act, British Columbia…

hold about one another”. (Iyer, 23) Iyer goes on to affirm that these root causes for hate violence is only reinforced or even exacerbated “by governmental policies, political rhetoric, and media narratives.” America has always struggled with xenophobia. Today, the lowest common denominator of Americans who share the idea that the US should be a white Christian nation…

country and were forced to return back to Europe.4 This dismissal of refugees was fueled significantly by the fear of a loss of jobs and economic success at the domestic level, as previously mentioned, but also compounded by deep-rooted “antisemitism, xenophobia, nativism, and isolationism.”4 And at a much higher level, many countries associated Jews with a ideals and beliefs that contradicted their own, including Communism and violence. Fortunately, due to the collaboration of several Jewish…

subdivided into distinct groups that are different in their social behavior and innate capacities and that can be ranked as inferior or superior. Racist ideology can become manifest in many aspects of social life. Associated social actions may include xenophobia, otherness, segregation, hierarchical ranking, supremacism, and related social phenomena.…

On October the 3rd 1990, the reunification of both East Germany and West Germany was finally made official, almost a year following the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9 1989. As two states became one, the treaty of unification caused many people to face economic dilemma. East Germany faced an insane amount of unemployment, while the more prosperous West Germans had to deal with the heavy taxation and were angry at the economic cost. This resulted in a very unhappy society where racism and…

Because of this, there has been a great deal of xenophobia and fear of immigrants from different countries, especially from countries that are predominately Muslim. It can be argued that the US media has played a significant role in the perspective of the Muslim-American and of Islam. Regardless, the Muslim…

The Collins Dictionary defines “immigration” as the act of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. Therefore, it could be said that the first immigrants to Australia were the forbears of the Australian Aborigines who arrived on the continent via the islands of New Guinea and Maritime Southeast Asia an estimated fifty thousand years ago. The late 17th century onwards saw the continent experience its first coastal arrivals after earlier journeys by European explorers. However, Australia’s…

In the chapter, Noon Wine, of the novel The Collected Stories written by Katherine Anne Porter, the Thompsons’ lives were uprooted by two strangers (Helton and Hatch); both are on different ends on the society spectrum. Porter uses these strangers to bring up topics like immigration and capitalism. Each character affects the Thompsons, particularly Mr. Thompson, in ways that could be translated as positive or negative. From beginning to end, Mr. Thompson’s views on foreigners, whether they are…

Some of the Spartan soldiers questioned their King, King Agesilaus why there were no fortification walls around the city state. The king simply pointed to his soldiers and said, “These are Sparta’s walls”. Sparta is regarded as one of the most militaristic societies during the time of the Ancient Greeks. Between the 5th to 7th century, this city-state was considered the strongest military force. There was also a very unusual political system that included modernly a monarchy, an oligarchy, an…

Local Miners committees were formed and began enacting laws excluding “noncitizens” from many mining districts. So miner committees even resorted to flogging or mutilation of aliens (Textbook, 201). This sense of xenophobia and nativist attitudes were demonstrated by many Yankee residents and miners. In 1850, Yankee miners passed The Foreign Miners’ Licensee of 1850. This law indicated that every noncitizen miner who wants to mine is required to take out a license…