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What is considered xenophobia?
Definition of xenophobia : fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign.
How do you use xenophobia in a sentence?
Xenophobia in a Sentence 🔉
- Shane’s xenophobia prevents him from going to social events where there are people he does not know.
- If xenophobia did not exist, racism would not exist because people would not dislike others because of their differences.
- The boy’s xenophobia arose when he watched a black man kill his mother.
What are the causes of xenophobia?
The most obvious motives advanced for the socio-economic causes of Xenophobia are unemployment, poverty and inadequate or lack of service delivery which are mostly politically attributed. Unemployment constitutes a social problem pertaining to a situation of not having a job.
How old is the word xenophobia?
Though xenophobia has been around for a long time, the word ‘xenophobia’ is relatively new—our earliest citation is from 1880. Xenophobia was formed from a brace of words found in ancient Greek, xenos (which can mean either “stranger” or “guest”) and phobos (which can mean either “flight” or “fear”).
What part of speech is xenophobia?
noun
xenophobia
| part of speech: | noun |
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| definition: | excessive or unreasoning fear or hatred of foreign people or things. |
| related words: | prejudice |
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| derivations: | xenophobic (adj.), xenophobically (adv.) |
Is there still xenophobia in South Africa?
The proportion of South Africa’s total population that is foreign born increased from 2.8\% in 2005 to 7\% in 2019, according to the United Nations International Organization for Migration, in spite of widespread xenophobia in the country….May 2008 riots.
| Date | May 2008 |
|---|---|
| Location | Gauteng, Durban, Mpumalanga South Africa |
What type of speech is xenophobia?
xenophobia
| part of speech: | noun |
|---|---|
| definition: | excessive or unreasoning fear or hatred of foreign people or things. |
| related words: | prejudice |
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| derivations: | xenophobic (adj.), xenophobically (adv.) |