Hopkins School
968 Forest Road, New Haven, CT 06515
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Curing Severe Social Myopia Since 2018
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Non-partisan, unbiased, 100% legal
Our Mission
To promote awareness about facts regarding xenophobia and advocate against any form of bigotry as a result of xenophobia.
Misunderstandings
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Xenophobia is a small problem - insignificant compared to other forms of discrimination and bigotry
Foreigners visiting the USA - approx. 6+ million/month; almost 80 million in 2017. With nearly 120 million valid legal visa stamps on foreign passports, this group faces the same magnitude a problem as racism (facing 120+ million minorities who are US Citizens).
Xenophobia is only targeting transient tourists sightseeing in the USA - insignificant to daily American lives
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Foreigners visiting US include scholars (some Nobel prize candidates), students (some on genius visas), athletes (some Olympians) and business people (some investing millions in US economy and industries to create hundred of thousands of jobs). In 2017, $251 Billion were spent by tourists in the USA - 13% of USA GDP and larger than combined exports of all Boeing aviation products and American automobiles!
Xenophobia is a one-way street
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While almost 80 million foreigners enter the USA each year, 80 million US Citizens travel to the rest of the world via airlines "alone". Including land and sea traveling via cars, buses, cruises, and rails, nearly 100 million US citizens travel to other countries each year. Do we want "tit-for-tat" treatment of Xenophobia overseas upon US Citizens?
Americans are so well-traveled and therefore cannot be xenophobic.
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Only 40% of US Citizens have passports in 2017, which means 60% or nearly 200 million Americans have never even traveled to Canada or Mexico. 1 in 3 well-traveled US Citizens has never been to Asia or Africa.
Xenophobia is only against illegal immigrants.
It's impossible to identify a foreigner as a legal or illegal immigrant by appearance or accent. While the respect of law is expected of all citizens of any country, it becomes a form of bigotry to assume foreigners are illegal, and therefore discriminate them purely based upon their accent or appearance.