Xenophobia In The United States

“Donald J, Trump is calling for a total and complete shut down of Muslims entering the United States,” (Donald J. Trump) The extent of Xenophobia means to have a fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners; fear of anything that is strange or foreign. Xenophobia has risen since the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers and it is something that has been shown a lot lately, mainly because of the 2016 presidential election. The term, xenophobia, was first used 1903 and it originated from New Latin. Xenophobia has two parts of the word, xeno, which means “stranger” or “guest”, and phobia means to fear, or to have fear of. In today’s world, xenophobia leads to fear. It can be the fear of an entire religion,a culture, or where a person is from any country.
Most of the American people fear the followers of Islam greatly. Since the attack on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001, there has been a rise of people fearing the religion of Islam. Since the radical terrorist Al Qaeda said they were Islamic terrorist, that made people think that all Muslims were somewhat a part of that group when in reality that group had nothing to do with Islam whatsoever. People then began to label a whole religion dangerous and radical based on that one terrorist group. Since then, the Muslims have been watched and scrutinized by their every move. People do not know what they expect from them. People think they will bring out a bomb from under their hijab, burqa, abaya, or thawb. It is something that the media feeds its viewers: that one should fear Muslims and they are unpredictable.The media also show only very small group of Muslims that are giving Islam the bad name and they never shows what the majority of true Muslims are. People fear a whole entire religion, like Islam, but they also might fear a group of people not born in the United States or who might not look
People should not have a bad impression of someone just because they are from somewhere around the world that you have heard badly of or a place that you do not really like. Lastly, the feeling of someone expressing their xenophobia, and even worse expressing it on you is absolutely dehumanizing. We are not different races. We are not white,black, latino/a, middle eastern, etc. We are one race, it is call the human race. We all enter this world the same and we all have an end game. We should not be this divided in the world where we all need to be together and united. Who knows? We might need each other during different times in