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The sociology and psychology of xenophobia

In votes for Brexit, and in Trump, we are hearing an indivisible claim for a national, ethnic, gender and class identity. But the claim emerges not from pride, but from shame.

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Cambridge, 2014. Flickr/Trojan-Llama. Some rights reserved.‘Sheffield’, he echoed with a snort, when I said where I was from.

Someone tried to rescue him, ‘People can’t help where they come from.’

‘They can move,’ he answered.