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IDEOLOGICAL BARRIER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A barrier to cooperation or interaction resulting from conflicting ideologies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("ideological barrier" is a kind of...):
barrier; roadblock (any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ideological barrier"):
iron curtain (an impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy; used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the demarcation between democratic and communist countries)
bamboo curtain (an ideological barrier around communist China especially in the 1950s and 1960s)
color bar; color line; colour bar; colour line; Jim Crow (barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites)