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The word xenophobia is popularly used to account for the hatred, suspicion, hostility and rejection that a person or group shows towards an individual or a group.

Although, also, the word is usually used to formally designate the type of phobia that someone can manifest towards ethnic groups other than their own or towards people whose social appearance, politics and cultural is unknown.

As with racism, xenophobia can be classified as a ideology rejection, which will tend to social exclusion of anyone who does not share the same identity cultural. It will only differ from racism in that it does not imply a feeling of racial or cultural superiority, although like it, too, it will proclaim the cultural segregation, yes, they will accept immigrants and foreigners as long as they comply with the socio-cultural assimilation that they support and propose.

The arguments on which xenophobia is based, such as religious, historical, cultural prejudices or already considered opinions, always tend to justify the

total and obligatory separation of the different ethnic groups with the sole objective of thus not "corrupting" the own culture and thus favoring one's own identity that would otherwise be seen seriously resentful. For example, in the case of some communities, both their own and those staunch defenders of the same, tend to use, to justify the prohibition to enter their territories, which in this way are preventing them, still pure of some issues, from being intoxicated by the worst of the Humans.

Also, xenophobia, will reject and exclude those foreigners who have achieved a very little integration in the country to which they emigrated. In this case, responsibilities could be wielded from both sides, on the one hand, those who arrive and who do not show interest in joining the new traditions and on the other hand, to the native inhabitants who are inhospitable, depriving foreigners of the desire to participate more actively and also feel they are owners of the country.

The economic and social crises that some countries suffered towards the end of the 20th century were something like a starting point for the unleashing of the most brutal aggressive manifestations of xenophobia that could be seen reflected, from the most innocent graffiti and posters, to hand-to-hand attacks between various groups in the which is the violence Navy was the common denominator.

Some concepts spilled from the top of a government, and sometimes even those spilled from the media, where They tend to present foreign customs and cultures as super strange dimensions and worthy of the greatest of care, they contribute to wake up feelings xenophobes among the population to which they belong.

According to some psychological currents that have thoroughly studied the issue of the origin of xenophobia, it is due to a distortion of the perception and that it makes those who suffer it greatly overvalue their culture, race, and tradition above all others.

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