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Xenophobia

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Xenophobia
Boxer Rebellion
Chinese rising aimed at ousting foreign interlopers (1900). [Chinese Hist.: Van Doren, 334–335]
Hermit Kingdom
the Korea; so called for 300-year closed-door policy. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 286]
House Un-American Activities Committee
conducted investigations to purge government of foreign influences. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1641]
Know-Nothing Party
aimed at WASP control of government by depriving naturalized Americans and Roman Catholics of political rights. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 371]
McCarthyism
from U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy who acted out morbid fear of aliens, especially Communists. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 409]
New Orleans riots
anti-Italian mobs lynched 11 immigrants after Sicilian murder trial (1891). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 309]
Sacco and Vanzetti
(Nicola, 1891–1927) (Bartolomeo, 1888–1927) Italian anarchists convicted in controversial murder trial (1921). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 411]
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Our family recognizes that xenophobia is a universal feature of human communities under attack.
MUSLIM U.S. DREAM MAY BECOME REALITY by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Perhaps, as Thant Myint-U suggests, Burma's history of foreign invasion has created a widespread xenophobia that leaders can manipulate.
Regime unchanged: how Burma's ruling junta has endured by Kurlantzick, Joshua / Washington Monthly
Indeed, we see that, apart from an expressed determination to privilege the "British type," the drafters of the Constitution were almost silent on citizenship, its obligations and rights; since Federation, immigration legislation has consistently had less to do with clarification than with political and economic expediency, too often lightly disguising xenophobia.
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