Nativism (disambiguation)
- Nativism (disambiguation)
Nativism may refer to:
* Nativism (politics) or "political nativism" ia term used by scholars to refer to ethnocentric beliefs relating to immigration and nationalism. In particular, it may refer to 19th century social movements in the United States, especially the Know Nothings, which called for a return to what it called the native culture, by which they meant white Protestant European immigrants.
* Psychological nativism is a concept in psychology and philosophy which asserts certain concepts as being natural, hence "native" to a species.
*linguistic nativism, see Universal grammar
*bionativism, the idea that non-indigenous species are inherently invasive or damaging to native ecosystems, and should be prevented or eradicated at all costs
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