xenophobia \ZEN-uh-FOE-bee-uh\
noun:Fear or hatred of strangers, people from other countries, or of anything that is strange or foreign.
The word xenophobia was formed from the Greek elements xenos "guest, stranger, foreigner" phobos "fear."
Definition: intolerance
Synonyms: ageism, animosity, antipathy,
apartheid, aversion, bad opinion, belief, bias, bigotry, chauvinism,
contemptuousness, detriment, discrimination, disgust, dislike, displeasure,
disrelish, enmity, injustice, jaundiced eye, mind-set, misjudgment,
narrow-mindedness, one-sidedness, partiality, pique, preconceived notion,
preconception, prejudgment, prepossession, racism, repugnance, revulsion,
sexism, slant, umbrage, unfairness, warp, zenophobia.
Notes: a person’s bias is based on facts, but prejudice occurs without a person knowing or examining
the facts.
Read the synonyms. They are strong words. Words we hear and use every day. These words often fall short when attempting to bridge the wide cavern between bias and prejudice. Bias is unuseful and most times unfortunate when dealing with culture and race. Prejudice merely begets xenophobia. Will we ever completely move our country and our world beyond this spiraling erosion of mankind?
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