"There was a point," she said, "where every time the kids would go into the hall we would get this kind of twitchy 'don't run — walk, walk.' We probably tried a little too hard to eliminate the noise because we wanted to have good relationships with the neighbors and to have good kids that other people enjoy being around and not like this focus of resentment.
"While general prejudice against migrants fell slightly, the focus of resentment towards asylums seekers, Muslims as well as Sinti and Roma, increased," the study's authors said.
Roswell, about 75 miles to the north, has somewhat more water available and so is the focus of intense resentment here.
Indeed, the Guardian/LSE study of the August 2011 riots noted that the "focus of much resentment was police use of stop and search".
Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi, was the scene of Uighur rioting in July 2009 that killed nearly 200 people, many of them members of China's majority ethnic group, the Han, a focus of Uighur resentment.
Watching the immigration special on Newsnight last week, it seemed that the word as used by ministers is reserved for a very particular type of individual – perceived to be low-status and now, in the current climate, the focus of potential resentment from "British workers".
Anastasia Volochkova, a former Bolshoi ballerina, said his power to assign roles made him the focus of sometimes passionate resentment.
"While good work is undoubtedly done under prevent, it is also the focus of considerably more resentment among Muslims than either the criminally-focused prohibitions," he said.
But otherwise, the average Bolivian has had little to show for the government's embrace of policies urged on it by the United States, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, now the focus of so much resentment.
Nirvana became the spearhead of the Seattle-based grunge movement, which spawned a swarm of successful rock bands including Pearl Jam, who became the focus of Cobain's resentment, since he viewed them as a corporate cash-in on the outsider-stance of which Nirvana claimed to be the true guardians.
The alienation of the people charged with documenting the national mood from the people who actually define it is one of the ruptures that has led to this moment: certainly, wherever I go, the press and television are the focus of as much resentment as politics.
