nativistic
IPA: nˈeɪtɪvˈɪstɪk
adjective
- In agreement with the philosophy of nativism.
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Examples of "nativistic" in Sentences
- And that's creepy and nativistic (at best) to my ears.
- Clearly, our sensitivities to nativistic and racist overtones differ.
- Its depressing how nativistic nearly every segment of our society is.
- Dobeln writes: "Its depressing how nativistic nearly every segment of our society is."
- We can either accept this with maturity and optimism, or sink back into nativistic myopia.
- Unfortunately, the nativistic impulse coupled with ignorance has a long tradition in this country.
- Sociologists have analyzed Prohibition as a war between a nativistic Protestant America and an immigrant Catholic one.
- If the revolutionary socialists will not organize the atomized masses and workers ... the nationalists and nativistic fascists most certainly will.
- When something happens that they can not do those things, people get anxious, angry, and often take their frustrations out in nativistic outbreaks of ethnic cleansing, rioting and social unrest.
- If not racist, it certainly sounded more than a little nativistic, which is odd coming from a candidate who argues that his international upbringing will enable him to better represent the US abroad.