Hostility toward a culture grows from ignorance and fear of its principles

Evidence

Seeing, or rather not seeing, is the issue. Hence his repeated reference to ignorance, whether as a direct charge, or as a charge placed in the mouth of a Hindu or some other Eastern pundit. It is sheer ignorance then that makes Westerners hostile to Eastern civilizations and its principles, because they are all the more afraid of them the less they understand them, “being themselves without [these principles].” “Lack of principles,” then, characterizes Western civilization “in every domain,” and this lack, being unique to the West, makes it an abnormality, an anomaly of an unusual type. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 313

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Early hostility to new immigrants was cultural contempt, not nativism — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 391