closing identities

English translation: xenophobia

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English term or phrase:closing identities
Selected answer:xenophobia
Entered by: Nadia Ayoub

12:15 Mar 12, 2013
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Social Sciences - International Org/Dev/Coop
English term or phrase: closing identities
We live in a time of great challenges and promises: modernization, globalization, immigration, economic crisis, old and tired democracies and new ones in a hard process of formation, wars and conflicts. All these factors of destabilization and rapid change create negative reactions of fear, closing identities, racism, fundamentalism, and phobias.

Thank you for your help!
Nadia Ayoub
Egypt
Local time: 13:45
zenophobia
Explanation:
or being inward looking, not welcoming to anyone or anything strange; afraid of losing one's own identity

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Note added at 29 mins (2013-03-12 12:45:00 GMT)
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I must have been feeling very Zen a moment ago! The spelling is , of course, Xenophobia!

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Note added at 30 mins (2013-03-12 12:45:56 GMT)
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it signifies a lack of openness to other alternatives or people

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8756889

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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/xenophobia

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

(Psychology) hatred or fear of foreigners or strangers or of their politics or culture

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you're welcome Nadia!
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Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 11:45
Grading comment
Many thanks!
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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
zenophobia


Explanation:
or being inward looking, not welcoming to anyone or anything strange; afraid of losing one's own identity

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Note added at 29 mins (2013-03-12 12:45:00 GMT)
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I must have been feeling very Zen a moment ago! The spelling is , of course, Xenophobia!

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Note added at 30 mins (2013-03-12 12:45:56 GMT)
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it signifies a lack of openness to other alternatives or people

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8756889

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Note added at 31 mins (2013-03-12 12:47:21 GMT)
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/xenophobia

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

(Psychology) hatred or fear of foreigners or strangers or of their politics or culture

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Note added at 55 mins (2013-03-12 13:11:30 GMT)
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you're welcome Nadia!

Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 11:45
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
Many thanks!
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you Gallagy!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jack Doughty: Yes, except that it's spelt xenophobia.
2 mins
  -> oops! Thanks Jack!

agree  amarpaul
5 mins
  -> many thanks Amarpaul!

agree  Tina Vonhof (X)
1 hr
  -> many thanks Tina!
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