Xenophobia

Xenophobia is prejudice against those not from your country or home state. It can take many forms from comments to denying certain people jobs or opportunities. This sort of behaviour used to be very common in Britain, especially in the post war years when immigration was very high and suddenly people were seeing whole ethnic groups they may well have not known existed.

When I asked for an opinion from a friend I got this answer. 'Is this wrong? In the case of the Welsh, no. Everyone else might take offence but the Welsh are used to it.' Proving it still exists but cases of Xenophobia from thirty years ago are relatively rare in Britian today but there is still friction between groups from different countries. Xenophobia was partially responsible for the wars in the Balkans not to mention many conflicts in history. If you look at it through history Xenophobia could be responsible for the expansion of Empire as you didn't want the French to get there first did you? It is ironic that this would then lead to Britain becoming one of the most multicultural and tolerant countries. So to say Xenophobia is wrong would be too dismissive, it was necessary.

However restricting someones actions based purely on which country they originate is stupid and should not be tolerated. In these instances it is 'bad'.