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Recent Examples of anti-foreign
Dutch Restrictions While across Europe anti-foreign sentiment keeps rising, limitations on foreign students are perhaps nowhere more striking than in the Netherlands, where a coalition supported by the far right has pushed a policy to restrict foreign students’ access to Dutch universities.
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Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 17 Aug. 2024
The Wall Street Journal reported last August that the company was under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission into whether its imports of monkeys violate anti-foreign bribery laws.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 4 June 2024
For Americans, the appeal of visiting China has dimmed under Mr. Xi, an authoritarian leader who has stoked anti-foreign sentiment.
—Vivian Wang, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
Demilitarizing those areas now would mean surrendering the CCP’s solemn mission to make China whole again and, consequently, diminishing its ability to use anti-foreign nationalism as a source of legitimacy.
—Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
This kind of nationalism is often a mixture of utopianism and anti-foreign sentiment, elements shared by the movement that birthed the Chinese Communist Party.
—Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022
Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 17 Aug. 2024
The Wall Street Journal reported last August that the company was under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission into whether its imports of monkeys violate anti-foreign bribery laws.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 4 June 2024
For Americans, the appeal of visiting China has dimmed under Mr. Xi, an authoritarian leader who has stoked anti-foreign sentiment.
—Vivian Wang, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
Demilitarizing those areas now would mean surrendering the CCP’s solemn mission to make China whole again and, consequently, diminishing its ability to use anti-foreign nationalism as a source of legitimacy.
—Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
This kind of nationalism is often a mixture of utopianism and anti-foreign sentiment, elements shared by the movement that birthed the Chinese Communist Party.
—Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anti-foreign
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Following the outbreak of COVID-19, bias incidents and assaults against Asian Americans soared to alarming heights as demagogues on the streets and in high office inflamed xenophobic fear and animosity.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Mar. 2026
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Even with an immigrant population of a mere three percent, xenophobic sentiment has been growing in Japan.—
Jeff Kingston,
Time,
15 Feb. 2026
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At the latter stages of the transition, aging richer countries now require workers from overseas – but are coming up against a nativist backlash.—
John Rennie Short,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2026
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In 1942, as the government was forcibly relocating and incarcerating Japanese Americans on the West Coast, a nativist group hoped to revoke the citizenship of Japanese Americans born in the United States.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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Jafarzadeh said that the campaign is pitched as a patriotic duty, and the mobilization of civilians helps the regime by both replenishing manpower and occupying members of the public that could otherwise be swept up into future protests.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Apr. 2026
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The values are different now, the lifestyles, the accepted vulgarity, the manners, the view of what’s patriotic and what’s not, the concept of service.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
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In his remarks at the event, Alvarez said that there is a resurgence of anti-immigrant assaults being seen in the country.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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But the more familiar two-thirds advantage for the Democratic Party returned following passage of Proposition 187, a 1994 anti-immigrant initiative in California that ultimately mobilized Latinos against Republicans.—
Gary M. Segura,
The Conversation,
23 Mar. 2026
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“Anti-foreign.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anti-foreign. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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