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:
“Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)