The word xenophobia consists of two parts: xeno (a combining form meaning "guest, stranger, foreigner") and phobia, ("fear, horror or aversion, especially if morbid"). Xenophobia is the fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything foreign or strange.
Xenophobia can manifest itself in many ways involving the relations and perceptions of an ingroup towards an outgroup, including a fear of losing identity, suspicion of its activities, aggression, and desire to eliminate its presence to secure a presumed purity. It can also be exhibited in the form of an "uncritical exaltation of another culture" in which a culture is discribed "an unreal, stereotyped and exotic quality".
Diogo Rainho
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