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nativism

[ US /ˈneɪtɪˌvɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. (philosophy) the philosophical theory that some ideas are innate
  2. the policy of perpetuating native cultures (in opposition to acculturation)

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  • This antimodernist nativism pervaded the 1920s, but it was particularly visible in the scientific racism of the eugenics movement, the xenophobia of the "100 percent American" movement, the sharp resurgence in the Ku Klux Klan, the post – World War One Red Scare (directed primarily at immigrant radicals), and in a series of draconian immigration restriction acts. 11 Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
  • Several of his works advocated nativism and eugenics.
  • A passionate nativism marched in lock step with a sense of a lofty imperial mission.
  • As it is, national proper pride, of long standing Islamic legal cultures and relatively backward social productivities decided nativism in operating the procedural system.
  • Chapter 2, "Raising the Cry of Alarm: Popular Nationalism, World War Two, and the New Political Filmmaking," explores the popular discourse on fascism and antifascism, nationalism, nativism, and anti-Semitism from the 1930s through the end of World War Two, emphasizing Hollywood's role in the construction of a wartime popular nationalism. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
  • Nativism is the rational selection for the third sector on the view of relationship between government and the third sector.
  • For in Reich's letter as in his book, the choices we face are simplified to "consumer deals" or "citizen values"; and his critics (me, on this occasion) are dismissed as "denigrators" of economic growth, enemies of capitalist globalization who pave the way for nativism: in short, prole-worshipping nostalgics. 'Supercapitalism': An Exchange
  • There will be a spasm of nativism and anti-immigrant feelings that we have not seen in a long time.
  • This kind of couched nativism really must be shouted down! Firedoglake » Tidying Up: Walton Decision, G/J and Other Bits
  • Much contemporary work in cognitive science on the set of models known as connectionist or parallel distributed processing (PDP) models seems to share behaviorism's anti-nativism about learning. Behaviorism
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