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xenophobe, xenophobia, xenophobic

Xenophobia is a fear or loathing of foreign people or unfamiliar ways.

  • Can xenophobia exist in a multicultural country?

A person with xenophobia is a xenophobe.

  • The union president wants high tariffs placed on foreign goods. Is she a nationalist or a xenophobe?

Someone with xenophobia is xenophobic.

  • Lyle was so xenophobic that he refused to travel outside Canada.

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