Prejudices and Discrimination
Further information: List of anti-cultural, anti-national, and anti-ethnic termsThe 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.
Read more about this topic: List Of Phobias
Famous quotes containing the word prejudices:
“Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)