Nativism (disambiguation)
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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

