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Asiaphobic en · ADJ

Etymology

From Asia + -phobic.

Meanings

1. (rare) Having a fear or loathing of Asian people.
   • Australian society has become less Asiaphobic in recent years, suggest Murray Goot and Ian Watson, allowing Howard to concentrate more heavily on Asia. 2007, Michael Wesley, The Howard Paradox: Australian Diplomacy in Asia, 1996-2006:
   • These three sorts of gesture in three sorts of film – the ethnonationalist Fist of Fury, the Orientalist/asiaphobic/asiaphiliac Enter the Dragon, and the postmodern/post-nationalist Game of Death – suggests that the 'event' of Bruce Lee was not 'one', but rather at least three. 2013, Paul Bowman, Beyond Bruce Lee: Chasing the Dragon through Film, Philosophy, and Popular Culture:
   • But be that as it may: the Great Russian chauvinist Voznesenskii knew exactly how best to touch upon the asiaphobic nerve of his fellow-countrymen, how to stimulate the deep-rooted irrational fears of the Russians of peril looming from Asia, and how to turn those fears against China. 1983, Peace and Security in the Atlantic and Pacific Regions, page 69:

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