This presentation stems from this growing insistence that Spanish speaking people should learn English in "intense" programs because the English language is the "language of advancement" and "the way to prosperity" are disingenuous at best, and at worse, lies touted in English.
U.S. English teachers are averaging at around $50,000 and $50,000 per year - with some states paying as little as in the $20,000.
If instructors in this "language of wealth" aren't living the good life, then surely Spanish speaking people are benefited if they learn in bilingual programs that strongly affirm the language of their unique and beautiful culture.*
But, this gallery panel points to various examples of xenophobia, an uncontrollable fear of foreigners (which is defined as a component of the horrors of White supremacy), and also some of the other social phobias that appear to be destroying the world.
Note, this site does not subscribe to the inaccurate use of the term 'phobia' to be blanketed across the whole body of prejudice.
Not all bigots should be characterized as innately fearful, as some feign fear out of a harsh hatred that can perpetrated absent a shred of fear.
Xenophobia Defined
A fear or contempt of that which is foreign or unknown, especially of strangers or foreign people.
An unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or "strange."
A pathological fear or hatred of foreigners.
Homophobia
Irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against same sex love and homosexuality.
"The fear of feelings of love for members of one's own sex, and therefore the hatred of those feelings in others." - Audre Lorde
Islamophobia
"dread or hatred of Islam and therefore, to the fear and dislike of all Muslims"
Irrational fear or prejudice against Muslims and the religion of Islam.
On the Margins: Discrimination Against Haitian Migrants and Their Descendants in the Dominican Republic
"The Dominican human rights organization National Committee for Migrations voiced concern last month over increasing "outbreaks of xenophobia" targeting Haitians."
Kumi Naidoo Talks About the Xenophobia in South Africa
Fear of 'foreigners' may slow scientific progress
"It jeopardizes the long-standing, important tradition of cross- cultural research collaborations, and it works against scientific advances that promise to benefit us all."
Xenophobia and Racism as NY Sun Columnist Attacks Brooklyn Dual Language School
"A columnist in the NY Sun, Alicia Colon has launched a scurrilous attack on the school – calling it a "madrassa" and making comparisons with the killing of a Dutch filmmaker by a Muslim extremist."
African Leaders Hide Political Woes Behind Homophobia
"The Black Radical Congress joins those who have strongly condemned the Namibian president's assault on same gender loving people in his Southern African nation."
"When I come back here I am shocked at what I see," says Monica Tombasco, who grew up in Hazleton and is back to visit her elderly aunt, Mary. "It's scary," says her aunt.
"In McDonald's when we go on Saturdays they are always there talking in their language. We never know if they are talking about us."
Learn to speak the language of a culture you're afraid of. Make an effort to understand folk who are different from you - and who don't want to be like you.
People often make their best contributions to the world when they can do so within their own cultural dynamics or manner of living out their lives.
After, all you'll have to face that false sense of superiority one way - or another.
South Africa: Minister Calls for Indaba on Xenophobia
"If it is a service delivery issue, let's talk about it, but to kill people and drive them from their homes is not the solution."
"If he were alive today, Huey Newton would have been the first to denounce Hardaway for his disparaging comments."
(Respect to blackacademics, but this specific article is included here, even while some of its terminology is antithetical to the cultural position of this site).
Xenophobia and Racism Affect Black School Children in Ireland
"About 98 percent of schools are run by the Roman Catholic Church, and the law permits them to discriminate on the basis of whether a prospective student has a certificate confirming they were baptized into the faith.
Some of the African applicants were Muslim, members of evangelical Protestant denominations or of no religious creed."
"Islamophobia has now become a recognised form of racism. Furthermore, as with the inaccuracy of such terms as ‘anti-Semitism’, to describe the anti-Jewish hostility that developed in the late nineteenth century, ‘Islamophobia’ bears many similar hallmarks."
"Crossberg's defense argument is similar to that of another white farmer, Marchel Nel, who shot and killed 11-year-old Sello Pete after 'mistaking him for a dog'."
""And I am proud that in South Africa, when we won the chance to build our own new constitution, the human rights of all have been explicitly enshrined in our laws."
"What struck me as I listened to this overfed heffa is that she was blissfully, and typically, ignorant of the grinding poverty that describes Black life in the townships that still sprawl over our post-apartheid reality."
"In the Russian Federation and Ukraine, where relatively few people of African origin reside, the rate of violence was extraordinary: African refugees, students, visitors, and the handful of citizens and permanent residents of African origin lived under constant threat of violence."
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