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Xenophobia

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The xenophobia is the thought that is the hatred and rejection of the tourist, with events ranging from more or less overt rejection, scorn and threats, assaults and even murders. One of the most common forms of xenophobia is exerted on the basis of race, this is racism.

In Western countries, have traditionally been, and are right-wing formations that fuel and promote the feeling of xenophobia, there is presently a growing concern about the resurgence of these formations and these attitudes.

The increasing emergence of racist attitudes in Europe and elsewhere, is at present a sad and serious fact. Probably never ceased to be a xenophobic minority, but what is happening for a while now is that that minority is growing, leaving the dirty secret is manifested publicly, violence stars and even justify their peculiar vision of the world in the legal framework of political parties.

Apart from ethical consideration, xenophobia is also a crime. Many states have criminalized racist and xenophobic behavior. The European Community approved in September 2008, a law against racism and xenophobia, with member countries within two years to adapt their legislation to the law.

According to some streams of psychology can deduce that xenophobes would suffer from a type of distortion in the perception that they would overestimate their culture, their traditions and their ethnic group over others. As with other distortions in perception (eg anorexia) the xenophobic not considered as such, it does not know of perceptual mismatch.

In the story, depending on civilizations and cultures that have come into contact, there has been xenofibia between these civilizations and cultures. Thus emerged the anti-Judaism, racism against American ethnic, racism and neo-colonial Europe in Africa, condemned for the Roma.

The twentieth century, the first half, was especially tragic with the extermination of millions of people, justified by xenophobia and racism.

Xenophobia, fear of different, it's a prejudice rooted in the individual and society. Directed, and the individual and the collective, is manifest in its mildest form with indifference, lack of empathy abroad, reaching the physical assault and murder. "Among the xenophobic and racist prejudices are more widespread cultural superiority of the Western world (Eurocentrism), the fear of loss of identity, linking unemployment and crime migrants, and the theft and trafficking of drugs to the Gypsies. " In general, the most disadvantaged groups become the imaginary enemy and against them are mainly targeted by the xenophobic anger.

"We can not stress that to counter discriminatory attitudes, racist and xenophobic, there are also experiences of openness, outreach, involvement that creates networks of solidarity and sharing space, to build intercultural learning."

Ezequiel