Xenophobia and related terms

Xenophobia

Xenophobia is generally considered the fear of anything non-human, or Xeno. Over the course of time, Xenophobia has also evolved into a sense of racism against anything non-human, regardless of fear.

Anthropocentrism

As an inverse to Xenophobia, anthropocentrism is a valid shade of meaning; in the world of Iron Hearts and Star-Lit Skies, anthropocentrism is frequently taken to drastic extremes. Whereas traditional anthropocentrism might manifest as a pride of a greater or lesser degree, the anthropocentrism of the age is vicious, critical, suspicious, and even lethal - a Xeno to a human is, in a human's mind, as a rat to a golden throne: a diminutive, dirty threat to the glory and splendor of a race. Everything a human does is better than a Xeno might do; everything a human makes is better than a Xeno might make; everything a human is is better than a Xeno might ever be.

Anthropophobia

Fear and hatred in the world do not work one way, as Non-Newtonian forces. In such a frictioned, tensioned world, fear and hatred work as opposite and terribly balanced forces. When fear, hatred, and malice direct from Xenos at humans, the phenomenon is anthropophobia. Xenophobia and anthropophobia are intrinsic, inseparable, and, so strong have they become to the hopelessness of it, irreconcilable.