Quotes About Xenophobia

I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians.

What is passing for religion in most of the Earth now is its opposite: xenophobia and road rage.

Fascism blames problems on a false cause—people of other races.

Caucasian laborers could not compete with the Chinese, could not live upon a handful of rice and work for a pittance, and found themselves being steadily crowded out from occupation after occupation by the thrifty, skillful Orientals, who, with their yellow skin and strange, debasing habits of life, seemed to them hardly fellow men at all, but evil spirit, rather.

The Arabs—she liked to think of them as the cockroaches of the human race—were spreading like a toxic ooze across the major cities of Europe, poisoning civilized society and watering down the gene pool.

Bundists marched regularly in Times Square, demanding that all "foreigners" be sent back to their own countries and no more admitted; New York had its own share of Nazi sympathizers and American Aryanists.

Some people believe that it is all right if humans eat creatures from other planets, but when the reverse takes place they raise a hue and cry, call for military assistance, demand punitive expeditions, etc.

I've been told to go back to my country so many times, I can't even count.

Evolution has made Homo sapiens, like other social mammals, a xenophobic creature. Sapiens instinctively divide humanity into two parts, 'we' and 'they'.

The problem starts when benign patriotism morphs into chauvinistic ultranationalism.

It would be wrong to tar all anti-immigrationists as "fascists," just as it would be wrong to depict all pro-immigrationists as committed to "cultural suicide.

Particularly in a xenophobic dog-eats-dog world, if even a single country chooses to pursue a high-risk, high-gain technological path, other countries will be forced to do the same, because nobody can afford to remain behind. In order to avoid such a race to the bottom, humankind will probably need some kind of global identity and loyalty.

adopt illiberal policies toward foreigners.

While there was plenty of free-floating xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and anti-intellectualism around, what would be called McCarthyism was less a product of the American people as it was the collateral damage inflicted by the return to full power of the corporate world and its right-wing political allies.

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Let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.

Ainsi, par son action en Égypte, Churchill a favorisé l'émergence du nationalisme arabe dans sa version autoritaire et xénophobe ; et par son action en Iran, il a pavé la voie à l'islamisme khomeyniste.

M. E. Dodd, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, expressed his belief that Hitler's moves against German Jews were unfortunately necessary because they had used their strengths "for self-aggrandizement to the injury of the German people," and he charged that "since the war some 200,000 Jews from Russia and other Eastern places had come to Germany. Most of these were Communist agitators against the government.

This new fight was for the heart and soul of America against the tide of racially degenerate immigrants who sought to dilute her Anglo-Saxon bloodlines and undermine her Christian identity with their Roman Catholic conspiracies.

The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.

Old-fashioned anti-immigrant prejudice always brings out some old-fashioned racists.

President Trump is mentally incapable of imagining the humanity of anyone who looks different from him or hails from a different nation.

Oxytocin, the luv hormone, makes us more prosocial to Us and worse to everyone else. That's not generic prosociality. That's ethnocentrism and xenophobia. In other words, the actions of these neuropeptides depend dramatically on context—who you are, your environment, and who that person is.

Oxytocin and vasopressin facilitate mother-infant bond formation and monogamous pair-bonding, decrease anxiety and stress, enhance trust and social affiliation, and make people more cooperative and generous. But this comes with a huge caveat—these hormones increase prosociality only toward an Us. When dealing with Thems, they make us more ethnocentric and xenophobic. Oxytocin is not a universal luv hormone. It's a parochial one.