Noun
The disposition to favor the native inhabitants of a country, in preference to immigrants from foreign countries.
The doctrine of innate ideas, or that the mind possesses forms of thought independent of sensation.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHe warns that the virulent anti-Catholicism rooted in the nativism and Protestantism of former generations has mutated into the forces of secularization. Source: Internet
Some of those involved in this debate included George Berkeley and John Locke on the side of empiricism, and Immanuel Kant on the side of nativism. Source: Internet
It is also the site where Maratha nativism flourishes along with jingoistic claims of cultural superiority. Source: Internet
Republicans further hurt their standing by entertaining an ugly strain of nativism that demonizes immigrants and Muslims and condescends to anyone not born in the US of A. Even our own Ted Ferroili expressing these sentiments. Source: Internet
So when the provincial Liberals start waving the flag of nativism, defending ‘their own’ (read: white European-descended peoples), they’re entering a dangerous path. Source: Internet
The projects for Le Pen and AfD have pushed Harris Media’s work deeper into Euroscepticism and the hardcore nativism often associated with it. Source: Internet