nativist
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- noun
- /ˈneɪtɪvɪst/
- Specialized
:
innatista
- Anti-Chinese nativists won their greatest victory in 1882 when Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act.
- American nativist
- nativist leader
- nativist group
Examples
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Though the Red Scare subsided relatively quickly, nativists found widespread support for immigration restriction during the 1920s.
Academic text (1999) -
Such explicit race and class-based connections to Chinese immigration were effective in defining and articulating nativists' problems with newer immigrants.
Academic text (2002) -
Jung, a nativist, indicated that structures present at birth should be allowed to develop.
Academic text (1994) -
Something like this was probably the position of most American "nativists" until the last years of the nineteenth century.
Academic text (1990) -
Significantly, many of the leading nativists were European immigrants or first-generation Americans themselves.
Academic text (2002) -
Certainly, nativists racked up many victories in their drive to maintain cultural and political dominance.
Academic text (1991) -
Thereafter, Lucy Salyer notes, nativists became increasingly successful in "molding federal legislation to their ends."
Academic text (1999) -
The cultural pluralists come closer to getting the new order right than the nativists, nationalists, and American communitarians do.
Academic text (1990) -
The most forceful ripostes to the nativists, New Humanists, and cultural exclusionists before the war came from Randolph Bourne.
Academic text (1992) -
As a nativist, she argued that language ability is primarily due to genetics, not just environmental factors.
Antonyms
How Nativist
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nativist comes from the Latin nativus from natus 'born', so a nativist is a person who believes some ideas or abilities are present from birth. That is why a nativist in psychology says these traits are 'inborn' and not just learned from experience.