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aporophobia en · NOUN

Etymology

From Spanish aporofobia, from Ancient Greek ἄπορος (áporos, “indigent, poor”) + -phobia, by analogy with xenophobia. Term coined by the Spanish philosopher Adela Cortina in the 1990s.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) The fear of poverty or poor people; antipathy toward them both.
    • We would like to introduce a term coined by Adela Cortina which arose recently and that is affiliated to that of exclusion: It is aporophobia (Cortina, 1997). Feeling of refusal is towards poor people, towards those who do not have a way out of their situation. It breeds on the prejudice that poor people are to blame for their own misery. This feeling subdues many behaviours that are essentially racist, xenophobic and it makes difficult not only integration, but also some politics involving realistic aid to immigrants (Martínez, 2002, pp. 17-23). As pointed out by Cortina (1997), “we don’t marginalize the immigrant because he is rich, nor the black if he is a basketball player, nor the retired with patrimony, we marginalize poor people” (p. 70). 2011, Xavier Mínguez López, “Local literature in a global world? Globalisation, exclusion and multiculturalism in Catalan literature for children and young people”, in Sino-US English Teaching, volume 8, number 5:
    • In Latin America, the most dramatic results of discrimination have an element of aporophobia, that is, revulsion and hatred for the poor. 2008, “Prejudice, discrimination and intergroup conflict”, in Actualidades en psicología, volume 22, number 109:
    • It is necessary to confront together the populist discourses of intolerance, xenophobia, and aporophobia, which is hatred of the poor. 2021, Pope Francis, Video Message of the Holy Father on the occasion of the Fourth World Meeting of Popular Movements:
    • Introducing aporophobia in the catalog of hate crimes is a debate that is still open. 2017, V Ávila Vázquez, E Garrido Gaitán, La aporofobia como delito de odio y discriminación:
    • It's easy calling somebody a racist (and I'm not talking about skinheads or assholes shouting racist things at matches), but the problem I think it's more aporophobia (sp?) than xenophobia. 2002 October 14, molecule, “I'm dissapointed ^([sic])”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet):

Synonyms

peniaphobia

Translations (16)

pl strach przed biednymi (fear, dislike, or hate of poor people) · eu aporofobia (fear, dislike, or hate of poor people) · it aporofobia (fear, dislike, or hate of poor people) · oc aporofòbia (fear, dislike, or hate of poor people) · de Aporophobie (fear, dislike, or hate of poor people) · gl aporofobia (fear, dislike, or hate of poor people) · pt aporofobia (fear, dislike, or hate of poor people) · ru апорофо́бия (fear, dislike, or hate of poor people) · fr pauvrophobie (fear, dislike, or hate of poor people) · es aporofobia (fear, dislike, or hate of poor people) · ro aporofobie (fear, dislike, or hate of poor people) · ca aporofòbia (fear, dislike, or hate of poor people) · ar رهاب الفقراء (fear, dislike, or hate of poor people) · eo kontraŭmalriĉuleco (fear, dislike, or hate of poor people) · fr aporophobie (fear, dislike, or hate of poor people) · eo aporofobio (fear, dislike, or hate of poor people)