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nativism
noun 5
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4ADJ.
virulent
VERB + NATIVISM
retaining, reverberated, strain
NATIVISM + NOUN
racism
PREP.
from, toward, with
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noun
1
A policy of favoring native-born inhabitants over immigrants.
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.
If there is to be another iteration of a Trump presidency, or a successful campaign by one of his acolytes, the scientific denial may be dialed down somewhat while retaining the reflex nativism.
2
The policy of perpetuating the culture of the natives of a colonised country.
3
A cultural element that is native to a colonised country.
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.
4
The doctrine that some skills or abilities are innate and not learned.
5
A theory that some knowledge of grammar is innate.
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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.
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If there is to be another iteration of a Trump presidency, or a successful campaign by one of his acolytes, the scientific denial may be dialed down somewhat while retaining the reflex nativism.
Wiktionary03
They were targeted by a virulent strain of nativism toward those from Southern and Eastern Europe that was largely about race.
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