THE Brookings Institute says Europeans who are upset about the influx of immigrants are suffering from a neurotic fear of change. Matthew Groh and Tara Vishwanath write:

We find that neophobia—the fear of anything new and unfamiliar—is one of the root causes of anti-immigration opinion. Since immigrants are both foreign and unfamiliar, neophobes are often lumped together with xenophobes as people who fear immigrants. The difference is that neophobes overcome their fear through acquaintance, whereas xenophobes hold their fears constant.

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Terry Morris writes:

What is the term for an irrational non-fear of a thing that is clearly dangerous and destructive, psychosis? Whatever it is, the writers suffer from it.

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