Anti-foreign bias has an evolutionary basis: in ancestral small-tribe conditions encountering another tribe was often genuinely zero-sum (competing over fixed game) or dangerous (violence), so wariness of foreigners was adaptive—but this instinct now misfires onto harmless modern trade (e.g. the Toyota dealership).
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Bryan CaplanEvidence Quote
“it seems like we transferred this fear to the toyota dealership”
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