xenophobia

Examples of xenophobia in the following topics:

• The Pull to America

  • Immigrants' urban destinations and numbers and an overall antipathy toward foreigners led to the emergence of a wave of organized xenophobia.

• The Anti-German Crusade

  • This wartime xenophobia spread throughout the United States in the form of community scorn and organized state and government repression.
  • While thousands of German immigrants were forced to buy war bonds to prove their loyalty to the United States, they were rewarded with widespread xenophobia from national organizations as well as their neighbors.

• The Immigration Act of 1965

  • The majority of the American people were opposed to the Immigration and Nationality Act, largely due to xenophobia and fears of how immigrants from these nations could influence the dominant white culture of the United States.

• The Know-Nothings and Democrats

  • The Know-Nothings, or the American Party, grew out of a rising tide of political xenophobia and Protestant revivalism .

• Red Scare

  • Newspapers exacerbated those political fears into xenophobia, a fear of people from other nations, because varieties of radical anarchism were perceived as answers to poverty and anarchism's advocates were often recent European immigrants.

• Containment in Foreign Policy

  • Soviet aggression was not aligned with the views of the Russian people or with economic reality, but with historic Russian xenophobia and paranoia;

• Hispanics in WWII

  • While during World War II, the United States Army was segregated and Hispanics were often categorized as white, racism and xenophobia targeted at Hispanic Americans were common.  

• The Nativist Response to Immigration

  • The American Party often is associated with xenophobia and anti-Catholic sentiments.