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nativism
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nativism
The belief that knowledge or behaviour is inborn. See empiricism; nativist theory.


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62) This nativistic suspicion of other cultures and separation, as manifested principally in language and religion, continued to be a political issue in the reconstruction and post-reconstruction era of the United States, but national unity was the dominant issue that captured the mind of the country after being wrecked by the Civil War.
Less known, however, in scholarly examinations of antebellum Philadelphia is the struggle of several black citizens to provide their own fire protection during one of the more violent and nativistic eras in the city's history.
Then, the authors compare the implications of this literature from the perspective of nativistic and behavioral frameworks.
 
 
 
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