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I don't think you know what that word means.




Tell me what it means. Maybe you are right.

You called him racist. Doesn't make a lot of sense. Now I really want to know what you believe it means.

To hazard a guess: taking "fear of the foreign" as a generic "unfamiliar" rather than the literal "foreign" it's actually associated with.

I.e. perhaps meant something like neophobia.


xenophobia is a fear of foreigners. What about their comment expresses this? because they said "folx" ? lol wtf?



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