When Irish immigrants came to the U.S.in the early 1900s,many whites called them names and treated them in a very negative manner.This exemplifies which of these?
A)homophobia
B)ethnocentrism
C)xenophobia
D)structural racism

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Xenophobia refers to a fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers. The negative treatment and name-calling directed towards Irish immigrants reflects this sentiment by some white Americans.Ethnocentrism (B) refers to a belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic or cultural group, and while it may have played a role in the mistreatment of Irish immigrants, it doesn't quite capture the fear and hatred directed towards them. Structural racism (D) refers to societal patterns that create and maintain racial inequality, which may have contributed to the mistreatment of Irish immigrants, but doesn't quite capture the specific phenomenon of xenophobia in this case. Homophobia (A) refers specifically to a fear or hatred of homosexuals, which is not relevant to the mistreatment of Irish immigrants.

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