fear of strangers theme

also known as: xenophobia

Someone exhibits an unusual amount of anxiety when encountering new people.

19 total · 3 choice · 8 major · 8 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
bbf1x07 choice A racist group of Humans, who were motivated by xenophobia, terrorized aliens on Babylon 5.
tz1959e1x25 choice Conrad feared what people he would find on Mars; his fears were allayed by their hospitality but then justified when he was put behind bars because the Martians, in turn, feared primitive human savagery.
tz1959e3x32 choice The mountain villagers intrinsic fear of strangers led them to misinterpret a friendly space alien's actions as being hostile.
ahp3x18 major The parochial-minded, elderly Englishwoman Mrs. Bracegirdle and her two friends harbored prejudiced views about foreigners.
ds92x10 major individual Bajorans afraid of immigrants
movie: Superman and the Mole-Men (1951) major The townspeople were reflexively fearful of the mole men visitors and tried to kill them.
rbt1985e4x01 major Captain Black speculated that if Mars was inhabited by a telepathic alien race, that race might naturally view the visiting spacefarers from Earth as invaders.
talesfromtheloop1x05 major Ed was unusually concerned about a mysterious person who had lurked on his property.
tz2002e1x31 major The recently arrived family whom nobody knew were naturally implicated when a mob of neighbors discussed the unusual events. The Narrator explained how fear, of terrorists as it happened, tore the Maple Street community apart.
tz2019e1x08 major People were paranoid about immigrants.