>An emotion we are all used to living with every day, these days. “It’s fear. Fear of the unknown.”
The article sucked. As mentioned.
But, the trope set forth above -- about 'fear' -- is trite and, in my experience, rarely true.
It's the pat answer as to the motivation behind virtually any kind of bigotry, prejudice, or snobbery.
When a member of group A claims that members of group B dislike him because B's are 'afraid' of A's, it is usually the case that A simply won't (or can't) acknowledge the legitimate reasons why B's might find A's repugnant, annoying, or obnoxious.
“What is the root of this exclusion?” Kwan wondered. The answer he’d come to was, in fact, the secret theme of all his books: that tribal, ancient reaction to the most primitive emotion. An emotion we are all used to living with every day, these days. “It’s fear. Fear of the unknown.”
Nothing really valuable here as other commenters have said.