386 Quotes About Xenophobia

He blushed to see other Frenchmen overcome with joy whenever they met a compatriot abroad. The would fall on each other, cluster in a raucous group, and pass whole evenings complaining about the barbarity of the locals. These were the few who actually noticed that locals did things differently. Others managed to travel so ‘covered and wrapped in a taciturn and incommunicative prudence, defending themselves from the contagion of an unknown atmosphere’ that they noticed nothing at all.

Many if not most blacks readily look down on some blacks because of their ethnicity or nationality. Yet they have a problem with their being looked down on, because of their race, by many if not most whites.

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.

Xenophobia is when you smile at people and they don't smile back.

That’s different. The French know that the English are superior to them and they’re appropriate about it. The Eastern Europeans on the other hand have no sense of place. All that communism has them thinking that everyone really is of the same class and we are absolutely not. But they don’t know that.

I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.

Most people have extremely high tolerance levels for intolerance.

We of alien looks or words must stick together.

...the first move to a more tolerant Australia must come from controlling the aversion to Muslims that is at present the principal xenophobia in this country.