It may not take much to turn those worries into a nativist backlash.

When it came to greenery, the immigrant was a nativist.

That image "has always been around even in the worst nativist periods," he said.

I can well believe that at some point those problems would accumulate and we'll go back" to America's nativist past.

Never mind - the nativist, isolationist mass hysteria is already here.

Still, politicians are quick to jump on the nativist bandwagon.

No one wants to be called a nativist.

Violence against immigrants also occurred, the worst being the nativist riots in 1844.

A century ago, it was a term of opprobrium favored by nativist Americans.

Both Argentine individuals and institutions were inspired by the nativist perspective.

Evans sought to promote a form of nativist, Protestant nationalism.

He is a leader of the Taiwanese "nativist" movement.

Subsequent psychologists have extended this general "nativist" thesis beyond language.

The Irish, for example, first experienced the sting of nativist bias during an epidemic in 1832.

"The idea was to study the psychological and therapeutic components of nativist religions.

In nativist periods, for example, it becomes acceptable to report illegal immigrants to the authorities.

The nativist reacts against the immigrant with prosaic notions of "law and order."

Others argued that the shootings revealed the growing menace of nativist rhetoric.

However, a nativist backlash resulted in the refugees feeling increasingly unwelcome.

No later national nativist organization ever achieved even a tiny fraction of the Klan membership.

It is component of the nativist theory of language.

Who slipped in that nativist bigotry at the convention whose 200th anniversary we mark this month?

Some of this opposition was rooted in nativist disdain of immigrants.

One of the original nativist versus empiricist debates was over depth perception.

Through this nativist sentiment the Klan its greatest power, in the state of Indiana.

Polish communities in the United States were targeted by Nativist groups and sympathizers during the 1920s.

This brought about a revival of the Taiwanese Nativist art movement, in which Wu was extremely influential.

The artist has been instrumental in many prominent Taiwanese art movements, such as the Ton Fan art movement and the Nativist art movement.

Ultimately, Hung Tung's contribution extended not only to the birth of the Nativist art movement but was also important in redefining conceptions of the 'local' Taiwanese identity.

In 1978, at the height of the conflict which had begun as a controversial debate over the Taiwanese literature movement that advocated Nativist literature, Wang okayed the publication of an article about a forbidden film.

The Taiwanese literature movement (also Taiwan literature movement, Nativist literature movement) refers to the effort of authors, poets, dramatists, musicians, and publishers in Taiwan to establish recognition of a distinctly Taiwanese body of literature.

It is also reflected in both the nativistic and the interactionist accounts of language development (see Chapter 5).

Country music is many things: forthright, sentimental, tradition-conscious, nativistic.

The Seminole followed the nativistic principles of their Great Spirit.

By 1917, Germans were the object of much of the American nativistic fervor.

She also was responsible for Terman modifying his nativistic position concerning gender differences in intelligence testing.

Nativistic movements and revitalization brouhahas generally come later."

In situations where the nativistic movement exists inside of dominant culture it tends to be associated with xenophobic and assimilationist projects.

How does a religious tradition that spends a large amount of time discerning the meaning of Greek and Hebrew qualify as "nativistic"?

While the criticisms outlined above do not obviate the necessity of some nativistic assumptions, they do suggest a different way of addressing the problem.

Reservations, military occupation, revitah- zation, nativistic movements, suicide, these things re- sult from improper contact, we call it negative acculturation.

In Paper Walls Wyman discusses the combination of antisemitism, nativistic nationalism, economic crisis and isolationism that made rescue inconceivable.

At the other end of the spectrum, in situations where immigrants greatly outnumber the original inhabitants or where contact forces economic and cultural change, nativistic movements can allow cultural survival.

Gladden was considered for position of President of Ohio State University until his battle with the American Protective Association over its nativistic rhetoric cost him that position.

Oh, there have been a couple of aberrant examples of fundamentalist movements gain- ing control for a moment, but those are what we call nativistic or revitalization movements under negative acculturation.

In conclusion, the nativistic position presented by McNeill and Chomsky may have overestimated the contribution to language learning which must be ascribed to innate knowledge and underrepresented the part played by child-environment interactions.

They move, it is claimed, from the (orthodox) mission church to an 'Ethiopian' church, then to a Zionist, then by the nativistic or tribal Zionism back to the African animism of their parents or grandparents.

Lots of people dismiss small-town Southern festivals as hokum, but according to "Ghost Dancing on the Cracker Circuit," a forthcoming book from the University Press of Mississippi, these events also constitute serious "nativistic revitalization movements."

Now after years on the fringes of polite conversation, Mr. Belov's views - unabashedly hostile to foreigners, at times unflinchingly racial in character - are no longer just tapping a nativistic undercurrent, but moving into the mainstream of the political debate.

Their vision "is a nativistic one, a reassertion of traditional values that have lost the force of ideals they may once have had and have become a set of imperatives, biblical and legal, that demand discipline rather than aspiration, repetition rather than creation."

Despite their small numbers and their reputation for adaptability, the Levantine settlers of Utah have endured the full range of nativistic hostility and bigotry shared by immigrant Italians, Greeks, Blacks, and other "swarthy" peoples at the hands of the culturally dominant Anglo-Saxon majority of the population.