The German term Fremdenfeindlichkeit is not exactly equivalent to xenophobia.
Evidence
Germans see these matters differently. For them the word Rassismus recalls the doctrines and practices of the Nazi era, features of their past which they cannot forget but insist have no place in their present society. There are expressions of hostility towards Turkish and other foreign workers, but then there is also hostility towards immigrants of German ancestry returning several generations after their forebears settled in Russia. They call it Fremdenfeindlichkeit, or hostility towards the foreign. (This is usually translated as xenophobia though this is not an exact equivalent since a phobia is an irrational fear and attitudes towards foreigners have rational as well as irrational sources.) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 676
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- DEFINE: Clarifies Fremdenfeindlichkeit as hostility toward the foreign rather than irrational fear of outsiders.
- XREF: Connects to cross-national differences in how societies name and conceptualize anti-immigrant sentiment, a parallel to the three already-published articles’ cross-cultural framing.