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nativist::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | nativistic |
the old nativist prejudice against the foreign businessman.
the nativistic faith preaches the old values.
nativist::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | nativistic |
nativist theories.
the traditional controversy between the nativistic and empiristic theories.
nativist::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | philosopher |
| Derivation | nativism |
Examples of nativist
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This perspective is a combination of both the nativist and behaviorist theories.
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One of the original nativist versus empiricist debates was over depth perception.
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Then he helps create an extremist nativist organization and becomes its president.
From the washingtonpost.com
That support collapsed when Republican policies took an angrily nativist turn.
From the economist.com
But that doesn't mean we can or should summarily dismiss him because he's nativist.
From the swampland.time.com
Nativist approaches are going to be increasingly, and unsustainably, costly.
From the economist.com
The Know-Nothing party flourished on nativist paranoias and disgust with immigrants.
From the time.com
But Mr Romney's nativist tone on immigration puts off many Hispanic voters.
From the economist.com
Mr. Pearce is himself routinely described by the left as a nativist, a bigot and worse.
From the washingtontimes.com
- Advocating the perpetuation of native societies; "the old nativist prejudice against the foreign businessman"; "the nativistic faith preaches the old values"- C.K.Kluckhohn
- A philosopher who subscribes to nativism
- (nativism) the policy of perpetuating native cultures (in opposition to acculturation)
- (nativism) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that some ideas are innate
- Nativism favors the interests of certain established inhabitants of an area or nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants. It may also include the re-establishment or perpetuation of such individuals or their culture.
- (480. Nativism) An anti-foreign feeling that arose in the 1840's and 1850's in response to the influx of Irish and German Catholics.
- (Nativism) A belief common in London's day that the "true" Americans were those of earlier Anglo-Saxon descent, that this "race" was under threat from the growing influx of Central European (Catholic and Jewish) and Asian immigrants.
- (Nativism) The Irish immigration surge during the second quarter of the nineteenth century revived anti-Catholic fever . ...
- (Nativism) The theory that humans have neural circuits that are genetically programmed to acquire language.
