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Xenophobic in sentence

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Across the US, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, a resurgence of identity politics and xenophobic nationalism threatens to reprise the great tragedies of the twentieth century.
The government's fanning of the flames of xenophobic nationalism after the recent bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade is just the most recent sign of a deep sense of insecurity, which is also reflected in the suppression of dissenting voices.
The second largest party - Greater Romania Party - is a half-fascist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic party, whose leader - a populist radical - received 22% of the vote in last year's elections.
All told, the US has alienated some of its closest allies, weakened the NATO alliance, and become a bigoted and xenophobic presence on the world stage.
This is, undoubtedly, a difficult demand to make of politicians, particularly given the legacy of xenophobic politics in so many member states.
The states known collectively as “Eastern Europe,” including my native Poland, have revealed themselves to be intolerant, illiberal, xenophobic, and incapable of remembering the spirit of solidarity that carried them to freedom a quarter-century ago.
If this is allowed to continue, we might end up opening a Pandora’s Box, setting free the nationalistic and xenophobic ghosts of the past.
LONDON – After last year, when the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union and the United States elected Donald Trump as president, xenophobic nationalism was beginning to seem irresistible.
The rhetoric of xenophobic demagogues appears to have convinced him that he had to kill the children of the social-democratic elites in order to protect Western civilization against the dangers of multiculturalism and Islam.
Other defenders of localism design less xenophobic and more instrumental strategies; they can work with the party of globalization as long as they find subsidies and social protection.
Without such clarity, populists seeking to tear us apart with their simplistic xenophobic propaganda will thrive.
Abroad, his main agenda was nakedly xenophobic: No to membership in the Euro, significant disengagement from the European Union, and a harsher policy towards foreign asylum-seekers.
Every time the EU acts as a colonial usurper, as it did in 2009, it undermines the legitimacy of its good and proper actions and strengthens the xenophobic, anti-European “Nationalist International.”
In Poland last autumn, younger voters helped to replace a government whose incipient authoritarianism and xenophobic attitudes threatened to isolate their country.
As mortifying as it is to see Johnson appointed Foreign Secretary, given his history of lying, xenophobic statements, and insulting remarks about other world leaders, at least he will bear the stain of Britain’s catastrophe publicly.
Now, memory laws have become one of the preferred instruments of nationalist populists attempting to consolidate their own power – and to incite the very xenophobic nationalism that once provided fertile soil for the Holocaust.
Today, Poland is ruled by a coalition of post-Solidarity revanchists, postcommunist provincial trouble-makers, the heirs of pre-WWII chauvinists, xenophobic, and anti-Semitic groups, and the milieu of Radio Maryja, the spokesmen for ethno-clerical fundamentalism.
With Brexit from the north and the Italian government’s deployment of xenophobic anti-Europeanism from the south, “ever-closer union” is becoming a farcical symbol of the disconnect between reality and the EU establishment’s propaganda.
Nationalism, one of the potentially harmful legacies of the late-eighteenth-century social revolutions, has made a comeback on the heels of rising nativist and xenophobic fears.
Both sides have an interest in defending this key institution of global governance from the xenophobic unilateralism embodied by Trump’s policies.
But it is important that we accept the fact that efforts to block migration are bound to fail, with disastrous consequences for human lives – whether they are lost on sinking boats in the Mediterranean and the Andaman Sea or threatened by xenophobic violence in South Africa, India, or elsewhere.
These are not necessarily xenophobic questions: a post-enlightenment civil society, with a free press and due process, is a precious thing, and those values should not be sacrificed to politically correct moral relativism.
CAMBRIDGE – Emmanuel Macron’s victory over Marine Le Pen was much-needed good news for anyone who favors open, liberal democratic societies over their nativist, xenophobic counterparts.
And in Italy, Matteo Salvini, the xenophobic interior minister, has capitalized on the riots to launch a broadside against Macron’s policies.
Giulio Tremonti, Berlusconi's Economy and Finance Minister and ideologue of the alliance with Umberto Bossi's xenophobic Lega Nord , declared in a recent interview: "Let's be done with the utopia of privatization.
Such arguments ignore our species’ lamentable xenophobic tendencies, evidenced all too clearly by the surge in popularity of far-right extremist political parties in Europe.
It may be xenophobic, but its leaders never denigrate the Republic: there may be fascists members within it, but the party plays by the democratic rules.
Nationalistic, xenophobic political parties had been on the rise in many European Union member states long before Syrian refugees first arrived in appreciable numbers.
Worse, they are not just xenophobic (and, in particular, Islamophobic); they also more or less unashamedly embrace an ethnic definition of the nation.
In each case, an old order fell, and progressive parties have been too weak to counter the emergence of authoritarian and xenophobic forms of governance.
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