The word "xenophobia" is correct and usable in written English
It is a noun that describes irrational fear or hatred of foreigners or anything perceived to be foreign. For example, "The mayor made a speech about how xenophobia has been on the rise in the city, and how everyone should make an effort to be more welcoming to people from different backgrounds."
"There is a serious risk of pandering to knee-jerk xenophobia," he said.
(Non-contenders can indulge in the luxury of pure xenophobia).
The sanctions were widely perceived as a failure – and hypocritical to start with: how could a country like France, which has its own National Front, lecture other countries on stamping out xenophobia?
Brussels has launched a ferocious counterattack against David Cameron over immigration, saying his talk of benefit tourism and a something-for-nothing culture among EU migrants is unintelligent and risks stoking "knee-jerk xenophobia".
One of the results is the rise of little-Czech nationalism, populism and xenophobia in a nation that no longer shares its fate with its historical partners or minorities – Slovaks, Germans, Jews, Poles, Hungarians.
The scale of this challenge has simply not been recognised by a Europe in the grip of economic austerity and frightened by rising xenophobia.
Welcomed at first by the British as a source of cheap labour, by the late 50s, as their numbers grew, they became a target of racial hatred and xenophobia, and even hasty anti-immigration legislation in parliament.
Europe can see in the Ukrainian protests its own best and worst sides, its emancipatory universalism as well as its dark xenophobia.
Otherwise, many more innocent Americans will become targets for hate by those swept up in nationalistic or militaristic sentiment based on little more than xenophobia.
Let's begin with the dark xenophobia.
His bewilderment seems matched by that of Mr Steinberg, who, although he faithfully recounts these events, is unable to explain the spasm of violent xenophobia that sometimes sweeps through South Africa.
