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Nativism logo #10101) Anti-immigrant policy 2) Social policy 3) Xenophobic policy
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Nativism logo #21000[politics] Nativism is the political position of demanding a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants. Nativism typically means opposition to immigration and support of efforts to lower the political or legal status of specific ethnic or cultural groups because the group...
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nativism logo #22641belief that the mind possesses inborn thoughts
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Nativism logo #21002• (n.) The doctrine of innate ideas, or that the mind possesses forms of thought independent of sensation. • (n.) The disposition to favor the native inhabitants of a country, in preference to immigrants from foreign countries. • (n.) The doctrine of innate ideas, or that the mind possesses forms of thought independent of sensation. ...
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nativism logo #21003(from the article `Rationalism`) ...that perception is conditioned by probability judgments formed on the basis of earlier actions performed in similar situations. As a corrective to ...
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Nativism logo #21416A belief common in London's day that the "true" Americans were those of earlier Anglo-Saxon descent, that this "race" was under threat from the growing influx of Central European (Catholic and Jewish) and Asian immigrants.
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Nativism logo #20972Na'tiv·ism noun 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 logo #20400[n] - the policy of perpetuating native cultures (in opposition to acculturation) 2. [n] - the philosophical doctrine that some ideas are innate
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nativism logo #20974 noun (philosophy) the philosophical theory that some ideas are innate
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Nativism logo #21203Theory that mind has elements of knowledge not derived from sensation. Similar to the common sense theory of T. Reid (1710-1796) and the Scotch School. Introduced as a term by Helmholtz (1821-1894) for the doctrine that there are inherited items in human knowledge which are, therefore, in each and every individual independently of his experience. ....
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nativism logo #21199the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants. · the policy or practice of preserving or reviving an indigenous culture. · the doctrine that innate ideas exist. · See
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