List of Phobias - Prejudices and Discrimination

Prejudices and Discrimination

The suffix -phobia is used to coin terms that denote a particular anti-ethnic or anti-demographic sentiment, such as Americanophobia, Europhobia, Francophobia, Hispanophobia, and Indophobia. Often a synonym with the prefix "anti-" already exists (e.g. Polonophobia vs. anti-Polonism). Anti-religious sentiments are expressed in terms such as Christianophobia and Islamophobia. Sometimes the terms themselves could even be considered racist, as with "Negrophobia."

Other prejudices include:

• Anglophobia – fear/dislike of England or English culture, etc.
• Atheophobia - fear/dislike of atheists
• Biphobia – fear/dislike of bisexuality or bisexuals.
• Christianophobia – fear/dislike of Christians
• Ephebiphobia – fear/dislike of youth.
• Germanophobia – fear/dislike of Germans.
• Gerontophobia, Gerascophobia – fear/dislike of aging or the elderly.
• Heterophobia – fear/dislike of heterosexuals.
• Homophobia – fear/dislike of homosexuality or homosexuals.
• Islamophobia – fear/dislike of Muslims
• Judeophobia – fear/dislike of Jews.
• Lesbophobia – fear/dislike of lesbians.
• Negrophobia – fear/dislike of Black people.
• Nipponophobia – fear/dislike of the Japanese.
• Pedophobia, Pediophobia – fear/dislike of children.
• Polonophobia – fear/dislike of the Polish.
• Psychophobia – fear/dislike of mental illness or the mentally ill.
• Russophobia – fear/dislike of the Russians.
• Sinophobia – fear/dislike of Chinese.
• Transphobia – fear/dislike of transgendered people.
• Turcophobia – fear/dislike of the Turks
• Xenophobia – fear/dislike of foreigners or extraterrestrials.