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"Buy local" is not xenophobic.

Everyone knows that "buying local" is about supporting local jobs/industry. There's nothing xenophobic about caring more about your neighbors than some people you'll never meet thousands of miles away.

If it is to be a meaningful term, xenophobia has to be about fear or hatred. It can't mean "favoring local over non-local".

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Sure, but in this region it’s more like buy my local good for you product, sure it’s a little more expensive but.... “OR ELSE”... Many have been driven out of their town or even killed (yes that is what I said) if you go against the status quo in the Basque region. Mondragón would not exist for not for the Basque cause... and most likely (it’s been their financial arm) the Basque cause would not have existed with out Mondragón.

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