Asiaphobic

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English

Etymology

From Asia +‎ -phobic.

Adjective

Asiaphobic (comparative more Asiaphobic, superlative most Asiaphobic)

  1. (rare) Having a fear or loathing of Asian people.
    • 1983, Peace and Security in the Atlantic and Pacific Regions, page 69:
      But be that as it may: the Great Russian chauvinist Voznesenskii knew exactly how best to touch upon the asiaphobic nerve of his fellow-countrymen, how to stimulate the deep-rooted irrational fears of the Russians of peril looming from Asia, and how to turn those fears against China.
    • 2007, Michael Wesley, The Howard Paradox: Australian Diplomacy in Asia, 1996-2006:
      Australian society has become less Asiaphobic in recent years, suggest Murray Goot and Ian Watson, allowing Howard to concentrate more heavily on Asia.
    • 2013, Paul Bowman, Beyond Bruce Lee: Chasing the Dragon through Film, Philosophy, and Popular Culture:
      These three sorts of gesture in three sorts of film – the ethnonationalist Fist of Fury, the Orientalist/asiaphobic/asiaphiliac Enter the Dragon, and the postmodern/post-nationalist Game of Death – suggests that the 'event' of Bruce Lee was not 'one', but rather at least three.