Nativism may refer to:
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Nativism (politics)
Nativism is the political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of native-born or indigenous people over those of immigrants, including the support of anti-immigration and immigration-restriction measures.
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, ethnocentric beliefs relating to immigration and nationalism
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Nativism (psychology)
In the field of psychology, nativism is the view that certain skills or abilities are "native" or hard-wired into the brain at birth. This is in contrast to the "blank slate" or view, which states that the brain has inborn capabilities for learni ...
, a concept in psychology and philosophy which asserts certain concepts are "native" or in the brain at birth
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Linguistic nativism, a theory that grammar is largely hard-wired into the brain
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Innatism
In the philosophy of mind, innatism is the view that the mind is born with already-formed ideas, knowledge, and beliefs. The opposing doctrine, that the mind is a '' tabula rasa'' (blank slate) at birth and all knowledge is gained from experience ...
, the philosophical position that minds are born with knowledge
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Native religion
In religious studies, an ethnic religion or ethnoreligion is a religion or belief associated with notions of heredity and a particular ethnicity. Ethnic religions are often distinguished from universal religions, such as Christianity or Islam ...
, ethnic or regional religious customs
See also
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Kokugaku
was an academic movement, a school of Japanese philology and philosophy originating during the Edo period. scholars worked to refocus Japanese scholarship away from the then-dominant study of Chinese, Confucian, and Buddhist texts in favor of ...
or Japanese nativism, a school of Japanese philosophy that rejected Chinese texts in favor of early Japanese ones
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