Xenophobia

Ethnocentrism, Racism, and Xenophobia are threatening our future because they're the judgment of people. Ethnocentrism being, "the evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own cultures". This meaning they judge other cultures by the values and standards of one's own culture. Racism is the judgment of one's skin color also superiority over one's race. Xenophobia is an irrational dislike of foreigners of other countries. All this…

based on interpretation of objects and events. This includes non-verbal hand gestures and other physical acts. The hate crimes that is happening includes having dog excrement shoved through letter boxes and having racist abuse from young children. Xenophobia is on the rise worldwide with it happening in South Africa too. Europeans are xenophobic because they are afraid that the immigrants will try to force their own culture, traditions and beliefs and that they will fail to assimilate in their…

The current political parties at the time did not make xenophobia to be a primary issue. The Know Nothing party was created as a response to anti-immigration sentiments. As The New York Times stated, the Know Nothing party was founded upon “… such a movement rests upon no broader basis, than the hatred of men…

Xenophobia is a deep-rooted fear towards foreigners and the theme of xenophobia is present in the novel, Dracula, by Bram Stoker. By building on Micheal Kane’s suggestion that Count “Dracula … sucks the very life blood of the community” (Kane 1) and Kane’s remark about hoe the “'outside' becomes the imagined repository of anything deemed undesirable which exists ‘inside’." (Kane 10), I will be discussing Count Dracula’s actions which signify the fear brought by Count Dracula into England.…

as just the “others”. In Greece during the Euripides times, there was generally a component of xenophobia or a dread of individuals from different cultures and nations. Additionally, this elicited a preconceived conviction by the Greek that any individual who did not come from Greece was in fact barbaric. Xenophobia in the play Medea is connected to the way the main characters view love.…

Fear, a primal instinct triggering our fight or flight response. When fear strikes, a humans hereditarily response is to subdue the source of that fear. In today’s America, xenophobia has triggered the fears of large portions of people from coast-to-coast. It’s largely known that the 2016 presidential campaign and presidency of Donald Trump has sparked fear and hatred towards immigrants, both legal and illegal. Hate crimes, according to the FBI, increased by 10% from 2015 to 2016, coincidentally…

for the murder of Mary Dalton and Bessie Mears as his actions are caused by him alone, the racial and ethnic prejudices, class conflict, and xenophobia at the time played an important role in Thomas’s case as it was what influenced Thomas to commit these crimes in the first place. In the case of Bigger Thomas, racial and…

civilizations have different beliefs and value vastly different things, it’s no wonder that people got a little hostile. There is much racial prejudice between characters in Ivanhoe. The lives between these characters were greatly influenced because of this xenophobia in various ways. It shaped people’s romantic relationships and affected their lifespans. One of the main themes of the film seems to be xenophobic tension and tragedy. Throughout the entire story, the audience follows the love…

Xenophobia is defined as an unreasonable terror of that which is perceived to be foreign. This phobia is found throughout many nations, and this unfortunate reality is described in Tom Coraghessan Boyle’s novel Tortilla Curtain. The story takes place in Los Angeles California in the city of Topanga Creek where its residents are struggling to adapt to a phase of social change as numerous immigrants invade this fragile society of white middle class Americans. The residents of Topanga Creek are…

races the Chinese caused a shift in the areas cultural and economic environment that the Caucasians residents weren’t used to. This migration of Chinese people to California created animosity within the white American culture slowly over time. The xenophobia displayed from white Americans directed toward the Chinese is how it initially started. The fact that the Chinese were from another location and looked different made white people feel uneasy and perturbed. Then when they realized that the…