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nativism  

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  • Nativism, the dark underside of nationalism, usually refers to the impulse to exclude immigrant populations from a polity on the grounds that they threaten to undermine civic solidarity. In its broadest sense, the term refers to the hostility of majority populations in the United States and western Europe toward minority groups. [Source: Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion; Nativism]

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