Xenopobia is either new nor a "buzz word", nor is ethnocentrism.  Both are as old as Zhonggou. The elitest concept of the "unique" has disadvantaged common people for centuries.  The elites squandered the labors of Zheng He's Seven Voyages in favor of "old fashioned type establishments that make our China(town) so unique."
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In the past elites feared displacement by foreign culture saying they were "deceitful exaggerations of bizarre things far removed from the testimony of people's eyes and ears."    
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History doesn't repeat itself but is does rhyme...