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Nativism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A policy of favoring native-born inhabitants over immigrants. US, countable, uncountable

    "To understand just how rare, look back into history to, say, the Johnson Act of 1924. Its national-origins quota system reverberated with nativism and racism."

  2. 2
    (philosophy) the philosophical theory that some ideas are innate wordnet
  3. 3
    The policy of perpetuating the culture of the natives of a colonised country. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the policy of perpetuating native cultures (in opposition to acculturation) wordnet
  5. 5
    A cultural element that is native to a colonised country. countable

    "The Columbian Exchange was proof like no other of how, when it comes to food, so often the venue of our greatest nativisms, we, as human beings, easily slip the ties of belonging."

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  1. 6
    The doctrine that some skills or abilities are innate and not learned. countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    A theory that some knowledge of grammar is innate. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From native + -ism.

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