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Nativism   Listen
noun
Nativism  n.  
1.
The disposition to favor the native inhabitants of a country, in preference to immigrants from foreign countries.
2.
(Philos.) The doctrine of innate ideas, or that the mind possesses forms of thought independent of sensation.





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"Nativism" Quotes from Famous Books



... that paupers and criminals be excluded from immigration were not embodied into law. The movement soon was lost in the greater questions which slavery was thrusting into the foreground. When the fight with nativism was over, the Irish were in possession of the cities. They displayed an amazing aptitude for political plotting and organization and for that prime essential to political success popularly known as "mixing." Policemen ...
— Our Foreigners - A Chronicle of Americans in the Making • Samuel P. Orth


Words linked to "Nativism" :   philosophical theory, nativist, philosophical doctrine, nativistic, social policy


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