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  • Essay / Negative effects of xenophobia - 1050

    This surely includes all other races that are not South African, as xenophobia is motivated by racism. On the other hand, according to ("Rhodes would have smiled at Afrophobia" - Cape Times (South Africa), April 16, 2015 | Online research library: Questia: 2015) "Afrophobia is a term used to designate a range of negative attitudes. and feelings towards black or people of African descent around the world, while xenophobia refers to a deep-rooted and irrational hatred towards foreigners.” The concept behind Pan-Africanism was linked to the end of the slave trade and the need to refute "scientific" claims of African inferiority (What is Pan-Africanism?: 2015). When we talk about “foreign nationals”, we might imagine that we are talking about African and Asian non-nationals (Why black South Africans attack foreign Africans but not white foreigners: 2015). However, in South Africa we saw that this was not the case for “foreign nationals”. the recent attacks, when only black Africans were subjected