Cold War Xenophobia

Nation of people believing of their own superiority over other countries of political independence.

Cold war xenophobia. If american authorities hunted communists behind every unorthodox thought or utterance in the late 1940s soviet authorities were no less vigilant against traces of alien influence. Middle class tastes materialized into consumerism. In fact the college students i now teach were all born after the end of the cold war. This anti immigrant xenophobia also supported the resurgence of the ku klux klan which incited anti catholic and antisemitic.

The list includes people who were born in lived in or committed a notable act in each. Xenophobia in south africa has been present in both the apartheid and post apartheid eras. In the early 20th century during rising waves of immigration white nationalist groups gained ground in american culture and governance resulting in the johnson reed act of 1924 which put low and strict national quotas on immigrants hoping to enter the u s. They display the same intolerance of dissent common in communist china.

For them it might as well be ancient history like the. In today s media climate it is ok to be xenophobic as long you are targeting russians dore explains. An atmosphere of xenophobia and cold war tactics is being compounded by what seems to be scapegoating this mp and by the cowardice of some members of major parties who have joined the sack him from parliament chorus. Their behaviour contains an obvious irony and lesson.

Rampant xenophobia fueled by the cold war fostered conformity to certain norms and conventions in the 1950 s. These were the years of zhdanov s campaign against cosmopolitanism years of spy scares and personnel checks in every soviet institution. Waknuk feared fringes people blasphemies. Whereas stavridis article would likely not fly if it pushed for such hostile measures against any other nationality it seems those old cold war habits die hard.

Last time i checked however the cold war is over. Increased tension between u s and soviet union. I asked a question before asking help to find a cold war term or a word related to the cold war that starts with the letter x and some people responded to me with the word xenophobia. Watch the full interview on rt.

The cold war inspired anxieties and pathologies in most of its participants east and west.