Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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17 January 2010
18:2338053Anybody suffer from this, or has been diagnosed as doing so? I was just fishing around the COD, for some interesting topic, and found the above.
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Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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17 January 2010
19:2138064This word came up in jest at work a few years ago when we had all those illegal immigrants through the tunnel. The usual talk comes out about racism and everything else, but one chap said about xenophobia, and although I`d heard of it before, I`d never heard it used. Browsing through the dictionary and coming across it, I remembered it, and thought it may be interesting for views, if someone was being racialist, and then complained he was suffering from the above. Looking on the internet, xenophobia/racialism can become mixed. As well as a dislike of foreigner`s, it can also be a dislike of a particular religious person.
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17 January 2010
19:3738066If it covers the strong dislike of religion then I guess I am xenophobic. I always assumed xenophobia means to be racist, to dislike people of different ethnic groups. As religion isn't "race", it is a man-made set of ideas and is, at the end of the day, a lifestyle choice, then I don't see that it is xenophobic to dislike religion. After all, people of any race or ethnic group can share in a set of religious beliefs so it is virtually impossible to regard it "racist". Maybe I am "religious-intolerant"? If that is so then I don't really care, I'm a proud atheist and supporter of a secular society and I find the concept of all religions idiotic and stupid. So if that makes me in any way xenophobic then so be it.
Anyone else, or is it just me?
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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17 January 2010
19:4838069In the dictionary Rick, it only mentions foreigner`s, but the wikkipedia mentions religion, but i was mainly enquiring about whether you could ever manipulate the word in a court of law, but I couldn`t see a way of proving you`re suffering from it.
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Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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17 January 2010
19:5938071I wouldn't class your intolerance of organised religion as a phobia Rick. A phobia is more of an irrational fear, but you have well constructed and intellectual reasons to dismiss it. If you broke out in a cold sweat, tears and started running whenever you saw a priest, that would be different. Of course we might think you were possessed...
There is a phobia called Theophobia which is a hatred of deities, but that would not apply to you as you would have to acknowledge that such entities exist in the first place.
I think I have Panphobia - the fear of everything.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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17 January 2010
20:0538072the problem with xenophobes is that they come over here, take all our jobs and houses, we should ship them all straight back to xenophobia.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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17 January 2010
20:0538073Panphobia - I have that.... hate cooking !
Been nice knowing you :)
Ross Miller
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17 January 2010
20:2138077Dictionary definition of xenophobia:
a fear or contempt of that which is foreign or unknown, especially of strangers or foreign people
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