nativism
[ney-ti-viz-uh m]
- the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.
- the policy or practice of preserving or reviving an indigenous culture.
- Philosophy. the doctrine that innate ideas exist.
- innateness hypothesis.
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Even the Nativist gangs were led already by a couple of Irish Catholics.
The attacks were personal, sometimes sarcastic, sometimes even verging on nativist (who knew Democrats hated Switzerland so much).
And by nativist I mean people who are in essence afraid of the world.
He was actually soft as mush, straining to mollify Hispanics without roiling his own nativist base.
FAIR was dubbed a “nativist hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center several years ago.
Solicitor General Verrilli Fumbles on Immigration at the Supreme CourtTerry Greene Sterling
April 26, 2012
nativism
- mainly US the policy of favouring the natives of a country over the immigrants
- anthropol the policy of protecting and reaffirming native tribal cultures in reaction to acculturation
- the doctrine that the mind and its capacities are innately structured and that much knowledge is innate
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