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Post by toomuchchanmin on Dec 6, 2015 13:48:43 GMT
Racism is the belief that there is a hatred of other races, and xenophobia on the other hand is the fear or hatred of racism. They may seem like the same thing, but I think different.
I think you can be not racist but xenophobic at the same time. Many people who say they believe in racial equality may say that they might be against foreign workers coming to their country and working there. We have this worry that foreign people are dangerous, especially in a singular-race country like South Korea.
I've seen many Koreans saying all Chinese or Indonesian workers coming to Korea are racists and many bizarre murders are mostly done by them. This is not helped by the fact that the media focuses on a lot of violent crimes by foreigners. It's true that violent crime rates are higher by foreigners are higher in Korea, but you have to consider that there is considerably less people like children and old people among foreigners, because people in their prime who can murder easily come to work.
I think many of us our xenophobic in some way or another very unconsciously. What do you guys think? Do you think there is a difference between or xenophobia and racism too?
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Post by Jonathan on Dec 6, 2015 20:00:27 GMT
I think many Koreans are xenophobia rather than racist. As you mentioned, the media concentrates on the negative side of what the foreigners do. There are many stories that are spread throughout Korea to freak out people and how dangerous foreigners can be. This has been going on and made the people fear other races. There is another explanation thought because Korea barely had access to foreigners except like the Chinese and Japanese for a long time, it's all new to them and that's why people are scared of foreigners.
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Post by Jooyoung on Dec 12, 2015 14:17:37 GMT
I agree that there are differences between Xenophobia and Racism, but it is hard to imagine a person who is xenophobic but not racist. I think your example of people who believe in racial equality but against foreign workers because they worry about their potential danger illustrates both racism and xenophobia (in addition for being hypocrites). They are being racist because they are stereotyping people of particular race or nationality to be dangerous and they are being xenophobic because they fear them just because they are foreigners. I think it is very difficult for someone to be xenophobic but not racist because xenophobia often result in racism. For example, those foreign workers who people fear are likely to receive unfair treatment such as lower job opportunity or overt racist comments.
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Post by lucia on Dec 12, 2015 17:58:25 GMT
Xenophobia is a broad notion and it can often overlap with racism. I think it would be more right to say that racism is a subset of xenophobia. Since the definition of xenophobia varies from culture to culture and there is no clean line between xenophobia and racism, it's hard to distinguish them. Xenophobia is the fear of the "foreigners" and the unknown and since skin color is one way in which populations vary worldwide, racism is one factor. But it's just one of the many factors that contribute to xenophobia.
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Post by christopher on Dec 13, 2015 6:51:52 GMT
Racism and xenophobia goes hand in hand. I feel like they are opposite, yet similar. Racism is the belief that other races are inferior than one's own race and xenophobia is the fear of other race. Racism doesn't involve fear but xenophobia does. Both deals with other races. I agree with Jonathan that Koreans are rather xenophobic than racist. Society made this stereotype that foreign people are scary and cannot be trusted. So Koreans unconsciously avoid others even though Korea is now a country where different people from different countries visit. Another reason for xenophobia is that Korea was one of the country which had lots of foreign affairs. Koreans had lots of foreign affairs in history and most of them were not a pleasant history. So Koreans might be afraid of foreigners and differentiate them as a defense mechanism. Racism may not be the case because Koreans never had a chance to dominant other countries and, thus, to feel superior about their race.
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Post by juliaj on Dec 13, 2015 6:59:16 GMT
Xenophobia is defined as the intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries, and it is more a fear than hatred. Racism would pertain more to hatred, so I think that xenophobia would apply better. I think that you can't hate something if you don't know it, but it is in human nature to be afraid of what they don't know or don't understand. Racism I think is planted in a person, but xenophobia is a branch of natural fear. However, xenophobia is still not an excuse to express hatred against others because humans also have the capacity to learn and grow away from it.
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Post by Tharu on Dec 13, 2015 8:53:04 GMT
I think most of the people has Xenophobia, and not being racist. People are scared of other races, and other countries. For an example we always hear black americans always shoot people around in America, and this is something that media tells us, so media influence us to think that all the black americans shoot around, so be careful. This is a main reason that we all have Xenophobia towards black americans. This could also can connect to human nature, because we feel fear because we want to survive, we get Xenophobia because we want survive and protect ourselves from unknown countries and cultures. I think we can't blame people for this, it is just there natural instinct.
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Post by mohahaha on Dec 13, 2015 10:54:26 GMT
I'd say there is similarities more than differences between xenophobia and racism depending on an individual's point of view, culture, etc... But due to media, as for example in some countries in the Middle East, people mistreat and sometimes become racist to refugees as such of giving them the cold shoulder ( a phrase used to pretty much says you are not welcomed here...) most refugees feel xenophobia once people dislike them, because they though that they are welcomed, and thus the cultures, and traditions are very similar, but it's the other way around because they gained the fear of the citizens in the country.
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Post by anniee on Dec 13, 2015 12:22:26 GMT
I would like to point out that xenophobia is "the intense or irrational fear or dislike of people from other countries", not the "fear or hatred of racism". Sorry to correct you, but you definition was off and would have confused someone who has never heard of the word xenophobia before. Also, racism isn't always about hating those from other countries - you just acknowledge a difference between those of different races, which is often used to qualify a particular race as inferior or superior to another.
Anyways, I agree with others before me that many people are xenophobic because of their lack of understanding of other cultures. For those who don't know Muslims very well, they would probably be terrified of them because Muslims mostly show up in the current news for ISIS and terrorist attacks, such as the one in Paris. They don't know that the majority of Muslims are peaceful and that this minority who claim to be devout "Muslims" are not actually representative of the population. The speech of United States House speaker Paul Ryan against Donald Trump's proposal to issue a temporary ban on Muslims from entering the country needs to set as an example; this is the point of a view of a man who understands and accepts other cultures as friends.
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Post by dilan on Dec 13, 2015 13:03:35 GMT
If we look at Xenophobia sometimes people don't like other countries people because they thinking about some main reasons. So maybe that's gone a be about their country, some main cases around their countries so people think about that country people also should be bad but that's not true. People sometimes gone a be bad and people sometimes gone a be good no matter with the country.
Racism is everywhere, in the society, we have a cluncool rich and poor is main parts of the racism black and white racism people gone a separate with that and they making group of people but we have to understand we are all humans.
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Post by Jessica (Yeeun) Kim on Dec 13, 2015 13:16:59 GMT
Personally, I believe there are difference between xenophobia and racism. For most of case, people are xenophobia, at the same time, they are also racists. Racism is making a difference and mentally or physically against certain group. In other hands, xenophobia is more close to stereotype of certain group. For example, if someone is xenophobia, he or she might have certain stereotype, but they would neither physically nor mentally stop foreigners to come to their country.
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Post by andrewcho77 on Dec 13, 2015 14:59:44 GMT
I think that Xenophobia and Racism is different. Xenophobia is scared of other races so you tend to get away from them and hide from them. I also believe that Koreans are Xenophobic because they don't normally shout at other race. Koreans were so used to living with their own race for awhile so it takes them to get rid of that fear. Racism is a hatred to another race. You will use profanity or physically hurt them. For example, if someone saw an african american they might so really terrible things and hit them. So I believe Xenophobia and racism is different.
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Post by erickim on Dec 13, 2015 15:10:27 GMT
If someone is xenophobia, it's hard for them not to be racist. The reason there is this idea of xenophobia is because we fear the unknown. I think that many Koreans are very xenophobia and racist. They just don't like people who are outside from their country(kind of true) and tends to dislike whoever is not Koreans. The way we see others really should change because Koreans needs to improve much more.
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