Anti-foreign opinion is shaped by politics, economics, and social organization

Evidence

Fundamentally, this remains a study of public opinion, but I have sought to follow the movement of opinion wherever it led, relating it to political pressures, social organization, economic changes, and intellectual interests. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 15

Categorization

• XREF: The reader’s manufactured-enemy hypothesis needs exactly this multidirectional causal claim: opinion follows structural forces, not just primordial identity. — connects to: Political grievances divert attention from deeper socioeconomic causes of anti-Western feeling — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1187

Broader Connections

• Political grievances divert attention from deeper socioeconomic causes of anti-Western feeling #corroborates (0.80) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1187