Sentence examples for underlying xenophobia from inspiring English sources

We suspect that anti-racism is not infrequently only a façade covering an underlying xenophobia which under certain circumstances, e.g. when resources become scarce, flares up in excessive violence.

Critic John Soister argues that Charlie Chan is both; when Biggers created the character, he offered a unique alternative to stereotypical evil Chinamen, a man who was at the same time "sufficiently accommodating in personality... unthreatening in demeanor... and removed from his Asian homeland... to quell any underlying xenophobia".

Some were appalled by the xenophobia underlying much of the coverage.

So the vote in the south and west of old Britain, while undoubtedly tainted by 30 years of state- and media-sponsored ignorance and xenophobia, has paradoxical underlying nobility.

The underlying lesson?

Change the underlying context.

Underlying unemployment rose.

Underlying growth potential suffers.

The underlying rents?

The underlying technology?

Ill Health, Underlying Complexities.