How to Use nativism in a Sentence

nativism

noun
  • Their opponents fear the rise of a strain of nativism not seen in decades.
    Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Every place has its own form of nativism, its own smell test.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2021
  • The plot below has sexism on the x-axis, and nativism on the y-axis.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2010
  • Against this backdrop, Schuyler’s push to include Lazarus’ poem on the statue was a retort to nativism.
    Elizabeth Stone, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • There is nothing to address the nation’s viral playacting, the elitist posturing of the left and the nativism of the right.
    Joe Klein, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
  • But plenty of it was also driven by a toxic blend of nativism and anti-Semitism.
    Noah Isenberg, The New Republic, 3 July 2018
  • The rise of nativism is having an impact on the politics, even if the candidates aren't winning.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 8 May 2017
  • The political nativism against the Chinese was based on a racist theory that the Chinese were slaves.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 12 Jan. 2018
  • America First nativism and the allegation that Hillary Clinton broke the law with her emails.
    Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 8 Feb. 2022
  • However, American nativism of this sort can be traced to a much slower age.
    Michael D'antonio and James Cohen, CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
  • But voters also disliked Trump's nativism and (sort of) elected him.
    David Faris, TheWeek, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Despite nativism taking hold in the U.S. and Europe, moral outrage over the plight of the Rohingya should be backed by more than financial support alone.
    Bill Richardson, Time, 15 Feb. 2018
  • But nativism never left, and the legacy of the Know Nothings has been apparent in policies aimed at each new wave of immigrants.
    Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 26 Jan. 2017
  • Amid the stagnation, an influx of migrants and refugees has led to rising nativism and a rightward lurch in the country's politics.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The film explains how a toxic stew of 1930s nativism, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia aided and abetted the Nazi death machine.
    Scott Borchert, The New Republic, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Who chose nativism, hatred, and white supremacy over their own interests?
    Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2022
  • But Farage’s xenophobia and nativism seem at least as important as his populism.
    Julian Gewirtz, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Ilhan’s historic election in 2018 as the first Somali refugee and one of two Muslim women in Congress dovetailed with Trump’s era and the rise of populism and nativism.
    Haleluya Hadero, Quartz Africa, 24 July 2019
  • Growing nativism and the rise of the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany has challenged the place of Turkish immigrants there.
    chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • At the heart of Trumpian nativism is the conviction that the West’s great prosperity reflects the virtues of its people; the poverty of the nonwhite world reflects the moral vices of its people; and, thus, the former owes no debts to the latter.
    Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 12 Jan. 2018
  • But, in an age of nativism and protectionism, other ways of seeing the world now predominate.
    The Economist, 31 Aug. 2019
  • In a country built by migrants, currents of nativism and xenophobia are on the rise, with bluster of walls going up and mass deportations.
    Jason Motlagh, Outside Online, 19 July 2016
  • In the past few years, however, the community the authors had been studying allied itself en masse with the sweep of American nativism.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The inequity created by this tenuous class of immigrants is the source of the nativism on which Mr. Trump capitalized.
    Paul Donnelly, WSJ, 11 June 2018
  • There was the Great Recession, the aftereffects of which hollowed out communities that thrilled to Trump’s nativism.
    Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 5 May 2018
  • The issues are real and urgent, but that nativism is the solution is a dangerous illusion.
    Elif Shafak, Quartz, 6 Aug. 2019
  • But economic anxiety is triggered by nativism, not the other way around.
    Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2019
  • Many blacks, for their part, say the royal wedding is a distraction from the rise of intolerance and anti-immigrant nativism in Brexit-era Britain.
    Ellen Barry, New York Times, 12 May 2018
  • Rightwing nativism has long been part of the American scene, and still is, fueled by the depiction of immigrant groups as subversive, or disloyal, or just strange.
    Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 11 May 2021
  • Trump has repeatedly invoked the xenophobic talking points of Europe's far right and applied them to the United States, whipping up nativism in his base.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 20 June 2018

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