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What does nativism mean?

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Noun
  1. (chiefly US) A policy of favoring native-born inhabitants over immigrants.
  2. The policy of perpetuating the culture of the natives of a colonised country.
  3. (philosophy) The doctrine that some skills or abilities are innate and not learned.
  4. (linguistics) A theory that some knowledge of grammar is innate.
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There will be a spasm of nativism and anti-immigrant feelings that we have not seen in a long time.
But one can make a distinction between nativism, which is based on resentment, and patriotism, which is based on love.
When the fight with nativism was over, the Irish were in possession of the cities.
But last I checked, neither Jean-Marie Le Pen, Filip Dewinter nor Joe Arpaio learned their nativism from reading Jabotinsky.
To view the Zimbabwe situation through the prism of nativism would mean mistaking anti-colonialism for nationalism.
The Old West raised the issues of nativism and a lower standard of comfort.

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