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Word of the Day for Saturday September 17, 2005

xenophobia \ZEN-uh-FOE-bee-uh\, noun:
Fear or hatred of strangers, people from other countries, or
of anything that is strange or foreign.(怕陌生人陌生地方的症頭..忘了中文叫什麼症)

Tips:凡是XX症在後面+phobia就對了，像不敢坐飛機就是Flying Phobia，因為Phobia本身就是ㄧ種強烈的恐懼，報告完畢。

After calling for peace in 61 languages and beseeching the
world to end racism and xenophobia, the pope made a
surprise announcement.
--"Will the Next Pope Be Catholic?" [1]SF Weekly, April 26,
2000

In Europe today, it is xenophobia and the political
manipulation of fear of foreigners that pose the greatest
threat to democracy, or at least to the quality of
democracy.
--Kofi Annan, "Democracy: An international issue," UN
Chronicle, June-August, 2001

The news, the incidents and accidents of everyday life, can
be loaded with political or ethnic significance liable to
unleash strong, often negative feelings, such as racism,
chauvinism, the fear-hatred of the foreigner or,
xenophobia.
--Pierre Bourdieu, [2]On Television

In the embattled atmosphere of wartime France,
[3]Apollinaire's quenchless appetite for the new was not
widely shared. Xenophobia reigned.
--Ruth Brandon, [4]Surreal Lives: The Surrealists 1917-1945