XYZnophobia

Fear of a broad array of foreigners.

Today he was blaming the Chinese for the 'foreign virus', yesterday, the Mexicans for allowing the Central Americans to get anywhere near our border, and whom he might fear tomorrow was anyone's guess. The president actually seemed proud of his XYZnophobia, blind to the leveling properties of the pandemic, and the lesson it offered, that we are all made of the same stuff.

XYZnophobia by Monkey's Dad March 22, 2020

xylophobia

Xylophobia is a fear of wooden objects or forests.

His xylophobia kept him from eating Popsicles, because of the wooden stick.

xylophobia by Kevin Talley August 28, 2007

xenophobiaphobia 

The phobia of xenophobia

After witnessing all the xenophobic violence in South Africa, I now have xenophobiaphobia.

xenophobiaphobia by uZofa April 15, 2015

Xyrophobia

The fear of Razors

Joe has got a serious case of Xyrophobia

Xyrophobia by *-Bleeding Orifice-* December 31, 2003

Xenophobia 

The term 'xenophobia' is typically used to denote a phobic attitude towards foreigners or strangers, or even of the unknown. Racism in general is described as a form of xenophobia.

-"Why do we have to have white people at the front of the bus, and black people at the back of the bus? Why can't we all be green?"

-"Light green at the front of the bus, and dark green at the back please!"

Xenophobia by Mr Munchkins August 24, 2005

xenophobia 

Taken to the extreme, an irrational fear of strangers or more broadly, a fear of those who are different. Taken in a more moderate way, a rational fear of those who are different in some significant way, such as race, ethnicity, culture, politics, religion. Since people live together in families and communities where blood ties and cultural similarities foster cooperation, those who are different undermine this social solidarity. The very presence of people who are different in appearance or belief or language make the majority of people in a community wary of those who do not share a common interest in preserving the dominant group.

This fear is justified since people naturally view those who look, believe, and act in a similar manner as extensions of themselves. Since people are naturally selfish, they will lend aid and befriend those whom they see as similar to themselves. Conversely, since people are naturally selfish and seek to dominate others to enhance their own power, they will naturally first seek to dominate those who are different. People who are different are more likely to be seen as objects rather than fellow humans.

When confronted with these threats to social cooperation based on viewing others as objects, it is rational to foster laws, social and economic policy, and attitudes that preserve one's own kind in power. To do otherwise is to hand power over to those who will destroy one's own way of life, culture, and political system.

Political power as well as cultural and social power are zero-sum games. When one group gains in the same geographical region, other groups must lose.

Campus Leftist: "Oh, those conservatives really show their xenophobia in opposing open immigration. That shows what closed minds they have and how paranoid they are. Of course, we had to shout down a conservative speaker last night at the lecture series, and drive him off campus in order to promote diversity and pluralism. We would never be prejudiced as those conservatives are."

xenophobia by Tex in Tex February 1, 2008

xenophobia 

having a fear or hatred of foreigners; racism

Americans showed a strong feeling of xenophobia during The Red Scare.

xenophobia by xenophobian June 11, 2006