Racist vs Xenophobic - What's the difference?
racist | xenophobic |
A person who believes a particular race is superior to others.
Of, relating to, or advocating racism.
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Suffering from xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners
* "Residents of Plettenberg Bay this week launched violent xenophobic'' attacks on foreign Africans living in informal settlements, beating them and ransacking their houses" ''Weekend Argus May 13/14 2006.
A xenophobe.
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As nouns the difference between racist and xenophobic
is that racist is a person who believes a particular race is superior to others while xenophobic is a xenophobe.As adjectives the difference between racist and xenophobic
is that racist is of, relating to, or advocating racism while xenophobic is suffering from xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners.racist
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(en noun)- I think that racists and xenophobes hold our society back.
Hyponyms
*(l), (l) *(l)Adjective
(en adjective)See also
* bigot * xenophobeAnagrams
* * English words suffixed with -ist ----xenophobic
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