Just finished a huge map game. I was going for a culture win and had an alliance win in the bag for a long time.
I had 73% influence and it looked like I was going to win it in the next 30 40 turns max. I got 3 xenophobia events in the next 50-60 turns. It knocked me back to 60% and I could never recover. In between the xenophobia I got one xenophile event but it did seem to have any effect. Finally just took a tech victory out of disgust.. Something like 150 turns and the phobia never went away
It wouldn't have bothered me to have one of the majors declare war on me for culture spamming and if they beat me so be it but I thought the repeated xenophobia events were goung to be toned down.