If not racist, it certainly sounded more than a little nativistic, which is odd coming from a candidate who argues that his international upbringing will enable him to better represent the US abroad. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Campaign Circulating Negative (And Ultimately False) Story About Bill Clinton] Reference
And that's creepy and nativistic (at best) to my ears. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Saturday Roundup] Reference
Clearly, our sensitivities to nativistic and racist overtones differ. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Saturday Roundup] Reference
Its depressing how nativistic nearly every segment of our society is. From Wordnik.com. [Are Low-Skilled Americans the Master Race?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Dobeln writes: "Its depressing how nativistic nearly every segment of our society is.". From Wordnik.com. [Are Low-Skilled Americans the Master Race?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
We can either accept this with maturity and optimism, or sink back into nativistic myopia. From Wordnik.com. [Immigration Enforcement Funds Slashed in Arizona - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Unfortunately, the nativistic impulse coupled with ignorance has a long tradition in this country. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
Sociologists have analyzed Prohibition as a war between a nativistic Protestant America and an immigrant Catholic one. From Wordnik.com. [Stanton Peele: Alcohol Addiction: The Good and the Evil of Alcohol] Reference
If the revolutionary socialists will not organize the atomized masses and workers ... the nationalists and nativistic fascists most certainly will. From Wordnik.com. [Chavez' government mismanaged? Well, yes, it is but what about the mite in USA's own eye?] Reference
Efforts were made to eradicate all Western influences from Japanese life and culture and to indoctrinate the people in traditional, nativistic values. From Wordnik.com. [Cultural Trends] Reference
When something happens that they can not do those things, people get anxious, angry, and often take their frustrations out in nativistic outbreaks of ethnic cleansing, rioting and social unrest. From Wordnik.com. [Europe riots, food prices rise and jobs disappear: what's next for the US?] Reference
General Council, especially among its nativistic representatives, will control also the new church-body. From Wordnik.com. [American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South)] Reference
He paints in sort of a hybrid between the Goth of Bosch and surrealism of Dali and nativistic semi-primitivist … maybe a sort of Henronimus Gunder-Surreali-Native-Son. From Wordnik.com. [futuristguy] Reference
Now these are students that are in many ways sympathetic to a very simplistic, nativistic Tamil nationalism, but they couldn't articulate their views as a set of political principles. From Wordnik.com. [Kottu] Reference
If my father was still alive today I truly believe that he would look at this Harper government and the nativistic changes that Kenny is proposing to immigration and call them out for who and what they are. From Wordnik.com. ["BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader] Reference
South Carolina - have framed immigration reform and the need to ease certain restrictions as a pro-business move that would help the labor force, there's been a shift to what McDermott calls "a more nativistic stance.". From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
I think you know I don’t much share your quasi-nativistic patriotic leanings, for lack of a more measured term. From Wordnik.com. [It Doesn’t Make Any Sense Whatsoever « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference
“sign theory” for nativistic explanations (see, e.g. From Wordnik.com. [Hermann von Helmholtz] Reference
It sounds nativistic. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
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