Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

The Vikings appear blood thirsty despite some attempts at showing them in a nicer light , maybe with the benefit of hindsight and a more liberal view the Nazis will be seen as just a symptom of their hard times in a few millenia , or even the present British government as trying their best to fix a broken society/economy .Today others might disagree . But ,the point was about the tv presenter's description being an accurate reflection of how the Egyptians are viewed today by Egyptologists and xenophobic is a very typical adjective applied to them particularly from the end of the Middle Kingdom , some recent e.g.s .
http://ancient-egypt-book.com/ancient-egyptian-culture-of-xenophobia.htm
speaks for itself
http://www.unrv.com/provinces/brief-history-of-egypt.php
scroll down to just before New Kingdom .
http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/people/foreigners.htm
Plenty text in relation to foreigners .
http://www.tobywilkinson.net/TW/Books.html
A recent review of one =As Toby Wilkinson, in his magisterial new history of ancient Egypt, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt, makes clear, the attitude of the average pharaoh towards dissent would have done credit to Kim Jong-il. "Political propaganda, an ideology of xenophobia, close surveillance of the population, and brutal repression":