Nativism
The belief that learning and behavior are strongly influenced by innate characteristics.
Nativism has its roots in the teachings of the Greek philosopher Plato, who believed that from birth i...
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A nativist movement was organized to oppose the great wave of immigrants who entered the United States after 1846. The navistist movement evolved from the Native American Democratic Association. The n...
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Americans at the turn of the century were alarmed about what they perceived as a change in the type of immigrants entering the United States. Some of the traits they saw as distinguishing the new immi...
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