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Definition of nativism in English: nativismnoun ˈneɪtɪvɪz(ə)mˈneɪdəˌvɪzəm mass noun1The theory that concepts, mental capacities, and mental structures are innate rather than acquired by learning. Example sentencesExamples - But history leads me to agree with the author that nativism and racism are powerful populist impulses pretty much everywhere.
- He initiates the central skirmish of this book by tracing a dividing line between Chomsky's nativism and the so-called New Synthesis Psychology.
2US The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. a deep vein of xenophobia and nativism Example sentencesExamples - Nonetheless, this era had the same conflicts (over cultural diversity and nativism, for example) as later periods, and established lasting policies toward immigrants and aliens.
- But one can make a distinction between nativism, which is based on resentment, and patriotism, which is based on love.
- As a result, supporters of the national ideal had to turn toward the seemingly secure foundations of biological and cultural notions of nativism: race and character.
- There will be a spasm of nativism and anti-immigrant feelings that we have not seen in a long time.
- Several of his works advocated nativism and eugenics.
- It will have its own peculiar national character, utilizing Christian fundamentalism as well as racism and nativism.
- Her nativism became apparent in Greece when she wrote how happy she was to leave ‘the half-civilized races behind and enter Europe.’
- Nineteenth-century common-school advocates combined a desire for creating a liberal democratic citizenry with xenophobia, anti-Catholicism, and nativism.
3A return to or emphasis on indigenous customs, in opposition to outside influences. Example sentencesExamples - Multiculturalism stands as the heir to nineteenth-century nativism not by any explicit hostility to Catholicism, but rather through its explicit, if sometimes obtuse, hostility to culture.
Derivatives noun & adjective The immigrant-bashing nativists will battle the free marketeers. Example sentencesExamples - It's not just disenchanted Euro nationalists and nativists who are turning their attention to the American melting pot.
- And the forces that gave rise to a nativist, inward-looking political party have not entirely disappeared, despite the generally favourable economic conditions in Australia.
- We see echoes of this perspective in the writings of Noam Chomsky and Jerry Fodor, self-identified nativists.
- But such talk inflamed nativists, and they and their Catholic foes were juggled by the various political parties from mid-century onward.
adjective Such antipathy, especially toward strong forms of bilingual education, is rooted in nativistic and melting pot ideologies that tend to demonize the ‘other.’ Example sentencesExamples - Positively, what postcolonial criticism does is to prevent interpretation from becoming too nativistic or nationalistic.
- The white slave panic of 1909-10 provoked an even more irrational and nativistic wave of government intrusiveness.
- This book is born almost as much out of frustration with the defenders of the importance of culture and the social to human nature as with the proponents of the cruder nativistic views.
- Their nativistic posture that the ‘indigenous peoples put themselves on the map’ would erase the essential role of the researcher through their politicized rhetoric.
Definition of nativism in US English: nativismnounˈneɪdəˌvɪzəmˈnādəˌvizəm 1The theory that concepts, mental capacities, and mental structures are innate rather than acquired by learning. Example sentencesExamples - He initiates the central skirmish of this book by tracing a dividing line between Chomsky's nativism and the so-called New Synthesis Psychology.
- But history leads me to agree with the author that nativism and racism are powerful populist impulses pretty much everywhere.
2US The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. a deep vein of xenophobia and nativism Example sentencesExamples - As a result, supporters of the national ideal had to turn toward the seemingly secure foundations of biological and cultural notions of nativism: race and character.
- But one can make a distinction between nativism, which is based on resentment, and patriotism, which is based on love.
- There will be a spasm of nativism and anti-immigrant feelings that we have not seen in a long time.
- Several of his works advocated nativism and eugenics.
- Nonetheless, this era had the same conflicts (over cultural diversity and nativism, for example) as later periods, and established lasting policies toward immigrants and aliens.
- Her nativism became apparent in Greece when she wrote how happy she was to leave ‘the half-civilized races behind and enter Europe.’
- Nineteenth-century common-school advocates combined a desire for creating a liberal democratic citizenry with xenophobia, anti-Catholicism, and nativism.
- It will have its own peculiar national character, utilizing Christian fundamentalism as well as racism and nativism.
3A return to or emphasis on traditional or local customs, in opposition to outside influences. Example sentencesExamples - Multiculturalism stands as the heir to nineteenth-century nativism not by any explicit hostility to Catholicism, but rather through its explicit, if sometimes obtuse, hostility to culture.
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