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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Speaker

Bryan Caplan

Evidence Quote

it seems like we transferred this fear to the toyota dealership

Source

Bryan Caplan on The Myth of the Rational Voter 6/25/2007EconTalk
Created: 6/15/2026, 9:20:37 AM

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