Sunday, November 27, 2005

Xenophobia

Word for the day is: Xenophobia

Taken from The New Oxford Dictionary of English

noun - intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries.

Example:
A british columnist living in Malaysia claims that there is a wide and ugly sense of racism and xenophobia amongst Malaysians. If he actually stops looking down on them maybe he would see things differently.

Derivatives:
xenophobe
noun- someone who is suffering from xenophobia
xenophobic
adjective

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Disclaimer: I am neither an English native speaker nor a qualified English teacher.