"Xenophobia" and "racism" are misused to suppress opposition to change

First I must explain what I mean my "xenophobia", which isn't a "hate of foreigners", but a "dislike of things foreign", and the flip side of a single coin, on the other side of which is the "love of things familiar" (famiarphilia?). You cannot have one without the other, and both are very natural ways for humans to feel. I certainly wouldn't want to be without either of them.

Just as "civilised" Christian society didn't just seek to control human sexuality, but demonised and suppressed it as something wicked, modern western society now seeks to demonise and suppress (as "xenophobia" or "racism") people's natural love of things familiar (famiarphilia?) and the resulting resistance to change, particularly the changing ethnic and cultural composition of their society, that is being driven by economic forces facilitated by the universalist ideology and self-intestests of certain, influential, but hardly representative, individuals and groups (especially in politics and the media).

Much of the behaviour condemned as "xenophobia" or "racism" is in fact an expression of "famiarphilia" (the love of things familiar), which is under serious and increasing threat from mass immigration, multi-racial/multi-cultural society and the "melting pot". Ethnicity used to be an essential element of being British (we were native Europeans, "white men"). Then the powers that be (which is a very interesting question that needs researching) decided otherwise. All opposition to, or even questioning of this decision is condemned as "xenophobic" or "racist".

There is no doubt that human sexuality and xenophobia (see definition above) need to be controlled (in a humane and civilised fashion), but demonising and suppressing them is not a good idea.

We need to study and understand the political, social, psychological and economic forces behind such demonisation and suppression.

It has a lot to do, I suspect, with the maintenance and exploitation of social, political and economic power structures.

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To: Everyone Re: "Xenophobia" and "racism" are misused to suppress opposition to change Date: Sunday 22 October 06

First I must explain what I mean my "xenophobia", which isn't a "hate of foreigners", but a "dislike of things foreign", and the flip side of a single coin, on the other side of which is the "love of things familiar" (famiarphilia?). You cannot have one without the other, and both are very natural ways for humans to feel. I certainly wouldn't want to be without either of them. Just as "civilised" Christian society didn't just seek to control human sexuality, but demonised and suppressed it as something wicked, modern western society now seeks to demonise and suppress (as "xenophobia" or "racism") people's natural love of things familiar (famiarphilia?) and the resulting resistance to change, particularly the changing ethnic and cultural composition of their society, that is being driven by economic forces facilitated by the universalist ideology and self-intestests of certain, influential, but hardly representative, individuals and groups (especially in politics and the media). Much of the behaviour condemned as "xenophobia" or "racism" is in fact an expression of "famiarphilia" (the love of things familiar), which is under serious and increasing threat from mass immigration, multi-racial/multi-cultural society and the "melting pot". Ethnicity used to be an essential element of being British (we were native Europeans, "white men"). Then the powers that be (which is a very interesting question that needs researching) decided otherwise. All opposition to, or even questioning of this decision is condemned as "xenophobic" or "racist". There is no doubt that human sexuality and xenophobia (see definition above) need to be controlled (in a humane and civilised fashion), but demonising and suppressing them is not a good idea. We need to study and understand the political, social, psychological and economic forces behind such demonisation and suppression. It has a lot to do, I suspect, with the maintenance and exploitation of social, political and economic power structures. More at http://www.spaceship-earth.org