In public discourse, but often within psychological literature, racism is regularly portrayed as a natural tendency rooted in human nature. We often hear how racism is the natural consequence of our ...

At every level of society, there are “us” vs. “them” divisions. Cliques abound in high schools, and high schools themselves compete against rival high schools. People in Indiana tell derisive Kentucky ...

Xenophobia often described as the irrational fear or hatred of outsiders has become an emotionally charged and politically manipulated phenomenon across many parts of the world, including Africa. In ...

To voice xenophobic statements and behaviour, as Gayton McKenzie has done, is to spit on the freedom of all South Africans, because freedom is universal. Excluding some means we do not have freedom.

“I have a Kalmyk friend who is a doctor,” a man who lives in Elista, the capital of Russia’s Republic of Kalmykia, told RFE/RL. “He told me yesterday that his granddaughter in Moscow had been stopped ...