WANDILE SIHLE NZIMAKWE: 211546206
XENOPHOBIA AS WELL KNOWN OF ITS NOTORIOUS AND BRUTALITY BASED ON HATE THAT NATIVES OF A COUNTRY HAS ABOUT THE FOREIGNERS NOT ONLY AFFECTS THE VICTIMS, BUT NATIVE CONTRY AND ITS CITIZENZ AS WELL.
2012
Wandile S. Nzimakwe
UKZN
10/17/2012
POLITICAL SCIENCE WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT (POLS201): THE SCANDAL OF THE XENOPHOBIA
WANDILE SIHLE NZIMAKWE: 211546206
XENOPHOBIA AS WELL KNOWN OF ITS NOTORIOUS AND BRUTALITY BASED ON HATE THAT NATIVES OF A COUNTRY HAS ABOUT THE FOREIGNERS NOT ONLY AFFECTS THE VICTIMS, BUT NATIVE CONTRY AND ITS CITIZENZ AS WELL.
2012
Wandile S. Nzimakwe
UKZN
10/17/2012
Introduction
The issue of Xenophobia is otherwise too narrow to understand very well but our understanding has somehow led us to end up understanding what is very constrained. The very narrow definition of xenophobia is that of hate that the natives of any country have for their foreigners. Knowing this only directs you to the very exact definition and understanding that everybody wants to believe and understand. Broadly defined Xenophobia is fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign. Somehow it shows that xenophobia isn’t only about people who are foreigners but anything that is strange to natives’ eyes mostly that of characterising the foreigners even the institutions of foreigners which goes on to whatever that characterizing them which includes even the attire, food, and accent, practices and so forth.
Further, Xenophobia is an excessive and irrational fear of anything foreign. This fear is most often of foreign people, places or objects. People who are xenophobic may display fear or even anger toward others who are foreign. While xenophobia is often used interchangeably with terms such as prejudice and racism, these terms have different meanings. Xenophobia can manifest itself in many ways involving the
Bibliography: Town: University of Cape Town Press, 2002