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Post by slowcoach on Jan 11, 2024 8:10:20 GMT 2
I kind of thing we are on different wavelengths.
Misoxenia, hatred of the foreign/foreigner/strange/stranger/other is what xenophobia sometimes tips over into.
It is used by academics when arguing over ancients Greek's interpretation of the behaviour ancient Jews and Egyptians, mostly it seems in expressing the view that the Jews kept themselves separate because of their hatred of others and particularly ancient Egyptians. I may have that wrong, it is not my forte.
The term was rekindled for further use in the debate over immigration in Europe.
The concept, more generally, seems to me to have been behind the creation of the Spanish Inquisition, in origin a method of ridding Spain of Muslims and Jews , the horror that was the Shoah, and more general genocidal action against others, e.g. Jehovah's Witnesses, and any born to the East of Germany and not Prussian. In both these cases it was allied to or morphed into a quest for racial/religious purity.
To my mind it was a prime motivator of Brexit and the current governments mistreatment of refugees/asylum seekers.
According to its supporters an invasion of foreigners is destroying traditional British (I think they mean English) values. I suppose those would be bigotry, intolerence, etc..
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Post by Netsuke on Jan 11, 2024 10:22:03 GMT 2
Reading the word Misoxenia, one could be forgiven for thing it is a garden weed. It just sounds like a garden weed! I thought it was killing rabbits. We were told an English gentleman who emigrated to Australia was homesick for England and had five rabbits exported to Australia for hunting. Obviously he wasn’t a very good shot.
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