But the popular anxiety that feeds such xenophobic movements is tempting ground for the centre.
The antagonist in my coming-out story was my grandmother, a woman as xenophobic as she was homophobic.
In the late 1990s, Mr Howard adroitly saw off a xenophobic challenge from Pauline Hanson's One Nation party.
Not for the first time, the IMF and the EU will be cast as lightning-rods for xenophobic anger.
But those xenophobic sentiments are disappearing in a new society of young city-dwellers hunting for jobs all over Europe.
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In the heated arguments about the progress, or non-progress, of architecture, Elizabeth Gordon was sometimes accused of being xenophobic.
I'm not xenophobic, I just believe in a country's democratic right to self-govern.
Its leader, Jean-Marie le Pen, has long played on disaffection with the elite as much as on xenophobic nationalism.
It makes raising the issue of Mrs Gandhi's Italian origins seem less xenophobic.
In Italy, by contrast, the centre-left has been forced to take a tougher line over Islam by the xenophobic right.
Mr Haider, now governor of Carinthia, seems more interested in the perks of power than in his old xenophobic message.
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But Mr Haider will probably stay on his perch, preaching populism, occasionally pandering to xenophobic prejudice, and waiting for another chance.
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Treasurer Wayne Swan labeled their views as "xenophobic claptrap" at the time.
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Early reactions to Kraftwerk were often hostile, and sometimes verged on xenophobic.
The most effective way to deal with xenophobic responses and cultural clashes is to make sure migrants quickly become part of the working population.
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His fears go beyond a medical crisis, worrying that South Africa could see another outbreak of xenophobic violence against Zimbabweans accused of bringing in disease.
Professor GONZALO SANTOS (Sociology, California State University Bakersfield): We, the immigrants living in the United States, are fed up with all these xenophobic attacks on our communities.
Even the nationalist Greater Romania Party, which some consider a rising menace on the xenophobic right, looks unlikely to get much more than a tenth of the vote.
They're not as gastronomically xenophobic as they used to be.
But Mr Mandelson says he has never suffered xenophobic hostility.
And this tribalist, xenophobic attitude is supposed to reflect Americanism?
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Slovakia, which split away from the Czech Republic in 1993, did little to privatise its banks until 1998, when the xenophobic leadership of Vladimir Meciar came to an end.
The software, still in its early days, has been deployed in South Africa to help gather stories of xenophobic attacks there in May and is now in use in the Congo.
"I think that the American promoters do not want to have much to do with the English boxing scene because it appears to us to be so xenophobic, " Arum told BBC Sport Online.
Yet in the current recession, voters are turning to right-wing and xenophobic parties across the Old Continent, away from the parties that historically contributed much more to the construction of the European welfare state.
The rise of far-right parties in Austria, Flanders, France and elsewhere reflects not so much a lurch to a xenophobic nationalism as an in-your-face protest to establishment politicians to halt their roughshod pro-European methods.
They have been buoyed by the success of another xenophobic party, the German People's Union, which took nearly 13% of the vote in the Saxony-Anhalt election in April but is not standing in Bavaria.
The potential for a xenophobic party exists in every European state whether a country has a triple A credit rating, as the Netherlands does, or a country is on the brink of bankruptcy, as Greece is.
Answering the original blog post, I would suggest that the recent tragedy in Norway has something to do with squelching the xenophobic fear-mongering and distortion that might otherwise be present in right-wing media coverage of the English riots.
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The second is that, in a number of cases, where the centre-right has returned to power, it has been forced to do so with the support of smaller right-wing populist parties, which are often openly protectionist and xenophobic in character.
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