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Anti-German sentiment
Anti-German sentiment: hostility toward Germans, people of German descent, or the German state, also called Germanophobia. Peaked in WWI and WWII with internment, language bans, and expulsions; documented today in Austria and EU-policy debates.
Anti-Germans (political current)
Antideutsche (Anti-Germans): a pro-Israel, anti-nationalist current in the German radical left, formed against reunification in 1989–1990 under the slogan "Nie wieder Deutschland", split from anti-imperialists over Israel, published Jungle World and Bahamas, now a fringe subculture.
Anti-globalization movement
Anti-globalization movement: also called alter-globalization or global justice movement, a transnational protest wave of the mid-1990s to early 2000s opposing neoliberal globalization, marked by the 1999 Seattle WTO protests and the World Social Forum.
Anti-gravity
Anti-gravity, also called gravity control, is a hypothetical means of counteracting or shielding gravity rather than balancing it with lift, thrust, or magnetism; no such effect is known to physics.
Anti-Hamas insurgency in the Gaza Strip
Anti-Hamas insurgency in the Gaza Strip: armed activity by Israel-backed Palestinian militias, including the Popular Forces, fighting Hamas security forces since the October 2025 ceasefire; more than 40 violent events and nearly 80 fatalities recorded by ACLED.
Anti-Henan sentiment
Anti-Henan sentiment (河南人歧视) is regional discrimination against people from Henan Province, China, marked by the 'dishonest Henan' stereotype, media amplification, hukou-linked structural roots, and the first Chinese regional discrimination lawsuit.
Anti-Hero (song)
Anti-Hero is a 2022 Taylor Swift song, lead single and track 3 of Midnights, co-written and produced with Jack Antonoff; a self-loathing pop track whose video won 2023 VMAs and whose scale scene was removed after fatphobia criticism.
Anti-Hetman uprising
The Anti-Hetman uprising (Протигетьманське повстання) was a 1918 uprising by Ukrainian national-democratic forces led by the Directory of the UNR, which overthrew Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi in December 1918.
Anti-Hindi agitations of Tamil Nadu
Anti-Hindi agitations of Tamil Nadu (இந்தி எதிர்ப்புப் போராட்டம்): mass protests in Madras Presidency and Tamil Nadu against compulsory Hindi teaching and Hindi as sole official language, in 1937-40, 1948-50, 1965, and 1967-68, led by Periyar and the DMK and ending in the state's two-language policy.
Anti-humor
Anti-humor, or anti-comedy, is humor built on the deliberate absence of an expected punchline; it works by keeping a joke's setup while defeating its payoff, related to cringe comedy and Dada's anti-art gestures.
Anti-imperialism
Anti-imperialism, or opposition to imperialism, is opposition to empire and imperial domination. The term spread in the late nineteenth century across Europe and colonized regions.
Anti-incumbency
Anti-incumbency is voter sentiment favoring removal of incumbent politicians or governing parties, driven by retrospective economic voting, especially inflation. Contrasts with the incumbency advantage; documented in India as incumbency disadvantage and in the 2024 global election wave.
Anti-Indian sentiment
Anti-Indian sentiment is prejudice and discrimination against Indians and South Asians, from colonial Natal's "coolie curse" legislation and US Asian exclusion to the 2020s surge in online anti-Indian hate.
Anti-inflammatory
Anti-inflammatory: drugs that reduce inflammation, spanning NSAIDs (aspirin, ibuprofen, COX inhibitors), glucocorticoids (cortisone, dexamethasone), DMARDs, and cytokine-targeting biologics; aspirin introduced 1899.
Anti-intellectualism
Anti-intellectualism is distrust of intellectuals and experts, framed against a privileged elite. Hofstadter's 1963 Pulitzer-winning book is the classic study; surveys link it to rejection of scientific consensus and populism.
Anti-intellectualism in the United States
Anti-intellectualism in the United States is a widespread attitude of distrust toward experts. Nearly one third of Americans have held these views, often correlating with political movements.
Anti-Irish sentiment
Anti-Irish sentiment: hostility toward Irish people in Britain and America, spanning Victorian stereotypes, Know-Nothings, the contested 'No Irish Need Apply' signs, racialization, and twentieth-century persistence.
Anti-Italianism
Anti-Italianism is prejudice against Italians and people of Italian ancestry, especially in the United States. Also called the Italian-American experience of discrimination, it involved racialist 'Mediterranean inferiority' theories, the 1911 Dillingham Commission's north/south race division, anarchist and Mafia stereotypes, WWII loyalty suspicions, and persistent mobster media images.
Anti-Jacobin
The Anti-Jacobin, or Weekly Examiner, was a British weekly satirical newspaper founded by George Canning and edited by William Gifford, which attacked British radicals in 36 issues from 1797 to 1798.
Anti-Japanese sentiment
Anti-Japanese sentiment: hostility toward Japan or Japanese people, also called anti-Japanism. Appears in East Asia (colonial memory, Chinese patriotic education, Korean comfort women issue) and in U.S. exclusion and internment history.
Anti-Knight Sudoku
Anti-Knight Sudoku, also called Knight Sudoku or No Knight Step Sudoku, is a 9×9 sudoku variant banning identical digits a chess knight's move apart; introduced 2006, famous via Mitchell Lee's 2-given Miracle Sudoku in 2020.
Anti-Life Equation
Anti-Life Equation: fictional DC Comics formula created by Jack Kirby, first appearing in Forever People #5 (1971). It lets its holder dominate the will of all sentient races, and Darkseid's quest for it drives the Fourth World saga.
Anti-lock braking system
The anti-lock braking system (ABS) is a vehicle safety system that keeps wheels from locking during hard braking, preserving steering control; Bosch introduced the first production system in 1978.
Anti-Magic Academy: The 35th Test Platoon (対魔導学園35試験小隊)
Anti-Magic Academy: The 35th Test Platoon (対魔導学園35試験小隊) is a light novel series by Tōki Yanagimi and Kippu, Fujimi Shobo, 13 volumes from 2012, with a 2015 Silver Link anime and a Yasumura manga.
Anti-Maidan
Anti-Maidan (Антимайдан) is a pro-Kremlin Russian social movement founded 15 January 2015 by Sablin, Starikov, Zaldostanov, and Berezikova to prevent a 'color revolution' and counter the opposition; analysts describe it as Kremlin-supervised and unregistered.
Anti-Markovnikov hydroamination
Anti-Markovnikov hydroamination is the addition of an N–H bond across an alkene or alkyne so the nitrogen attaches to the less substituted carbon, giving a linear amine.
Anti-Markovnikov hydrofunctionalization
Anti-Markovnikov hydrofunctionalization adds hydrogen and a functional group across a carbon-carbon multiple bond so the group lands on the less substituted carbon, the opposite of Markovnikov's rule, a long-standing challenge requiring special catalysts.
Anti-Markovnikov hydrofunctionalization of alkenes by photoredox
Anti-Markovnikov hydrofunctionalization of alkenes by photoredox is a set of visible-light-catalyzed reactions, developed mainly by David Nicewicz, that add hydrogen and a heteroatom group across alkenes with reversed regiochemistry.
Anti-Markovnikov Wacker oxidation
Anti-Markovnikov Wacker oxidation is a variant of the Wacker oxidation of terminal alkenes that places oxygen at the terminal carbon, giving aldehydes instead of methyl ketones.
Anti-Masonic Party
Anti-Masonic Party (1826–1843), America's first influential third party, founded after William Morgan's 1826 disappearance in Batavia, New York; introduced the national nominating convention, ran William Wirt in 1832, won Vermont, then merged into the Whigs.