oikophobia

It is vital that the European states achieve an effective integration of their immigrant communities; but if the liberal élite will not discuss the matter, and continue to put all blame for the growing anxiety on the xenophobia of the indigenous population while ignoring the oikophobia which is an equal contributory cause, then the likely long-term effect will be a popular explosion, and one from which no-one will benefit, least of all the immigrant communities.

The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009

But she is deeply involved in socialism and oikophobia, which are far more pressing threats to the country.

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Scruton writes: Xenophobia is fear of the alien; oikophobia is fear of the familiar: "the disposition, in any conflict, to side with 'them' against 'us,' and the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably 'ours.'"

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And it is the rise of oikophobia that has led to the growing crisis of legitimacy in the nation states of Europe.

The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009

Nor is oikophobia a specifically English, still less specifically British tendency.

The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009

Those who level the charge are almost invariably in the grip of oikophobia.

The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009

I call the attitude oikophobia - the aversion to home - by way of emphasizing its deep relation to xenophobia, of which it is the mirror image.

The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009

And it is interesting to note that a recent BBC 'docudrama' constructed around the Cambridge spies neither examined the realities of their treason nor addressed the suffering of the millions of their East European victims, but merely endorsed the oikophobia that had caused them to act as they did.

The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009

The Cambridge spies - educated people who penetrated our foreign service during the war and betrayed our Eastern European allies to Stalin - offer a telling illustration of what oikophobia has meant for my country and for the Western alliance.

The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009

Scruton has done an invaluable service by giving a name (oikophobia) to the loathing felt by liberals for the societies that spawned them.

The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009