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Who produces xenophobia? - Foreigners placed in the lower levels of the racial hierarchy

  • Cross-Cultural Studies
  • 2019, 56(), pp.87-125
  • DOI : 10.21049/ccs.2019.56..87
  • Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Literature
  • Received : August 10, 2019
  • Accepted : September 3, 2019
  • Published : September 30, 2019

Yang Haewoo 1

1경희대학교(국제캠퍼스) 비교문화연구소

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ABSTRACT

Since entering Yemen, open hate speech toward foreigners has ignited. Until now, xenophobia has spread through the Internet. However, abhorrent acts are now justified in the name of safety, people, national identity and nationalism, or nationalism, by disguising distorted and fabricated information as truth. The targets of these abhorrent acts are also expanding substantially to include all foreigners, including ethnic Koreans in China, illegal immigrants, refugees, and multicultural families. Hate speech of this sort that attacks certain ethnic and national groups denies dignity and equality to others. In addition, it is a form of racism that justifies discrimination on the grounds of attributes that minorities have. It should be remembered that hate speech has the effect of forcing silence on the minority and is a form of murder of the soul (Morooka Yasko 2015, 91-95) that causes the minority to stop objecting to the hate speech due to feeling self-ashamed and helpless. Xenophobic groups argue that they do not abhor foreigners, but instead care about our safety and protecting our community and our national identity. However, underneath the abhorrence is how the state has intentionally managed and controlled other people for a long time. The state should realize that racism and hatred have sprung up as a result of the nation's own role in oppression in reporting, cracking down, and deporting. This is a rudimentary study that reveals how xenophobia forms.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.