[robowombat]

It's Not Xenophobia, It's Xenonausea--It is not Xenophobia. It is Xenonausea. People are sick of having the whole world shoved down their throats at once and being told it tastes like ice cream. They are sick of every street corner and parking lot being filled with criminal aliens waiting to work off the books and outside the laws that are applied so enthusiastically to actual Americans. They are sick of pressing “1” for English. They are sick of being at war with foreign terrorists and simultaneously being economically and demographically bound more tightly to the nations producing these terrorists. They are sick of being told that the world is global or flat or smaller or at their doorstep or all coming for dinner on Tuesday

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

THE WORLD IS FLAT!

I was always under the impression that this theory was discredited by that Columbus guy, but I suppose that any concept is plausible to people who think refashioning the U.S. into a third world nation is a grand idea.

[Das Outsider]

It's Not Xenophobia, It's Xenonausea--It is not Xenophobia. It is Xenonausea. People are sick of having the whole world shoved down their throats at once and being told it tastes like ice cream.

Xenophobia refers to prejudice within a society, anyway. An individual does not like things that are strange and/or foreign. All of the definitions that I have come across emphasize the personal and internal meaning of the word. It is badly used on FR and in the media.

An example: If you are suspicious of or dislike Mexican-Americans and their cultural influence on America, solely for the fact that it is foreign, you are a xenophobe. If you are against illegal immigration--much of which is facilitated by Mexico--for reasons economic, legal, etc., you are not xenophobic because of that.

Lumping suspicion of other nations' agendas as a facet of foreign policy and xenophobia into the same bin is moving dangerously close to a certain kind of fruit analysis.

[Pelham]

Well said.