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To embrace nativism in a global, connected economic world is to sacrifice prosperity for the sake of exclusion, just as the main effect of racial segregation in the American South was to leave the region impoverished and underdeveloped.
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Jamelle Bouie, Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2025
The next while needs to focus on deep reform and not nationalism and nativism.
—Mbongiseni Buthelezi, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
Frustration with high levels of immigration, coupled with discontent over Britain’s sluggish economic growth, has provided fertile ground for nativism.
—Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
The immigrant story isn't hurting Superman; American nativism is.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
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Jamelle Bouie, Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2025
The next while needs to focus on deep reform and not nationalism and nativism.
—Mbongiseni Buthelezi, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
Frustration with high levels of immigration, coupled with discontent over Britain’s sluggish economic growth, has provided fertile ground for nativism.
—Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
The immigrant story isn't hurting Superman; American nativism is.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nativism
xenophobia
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Beneath its genre surface, the film mounts a pointed examination of xenophobia and social exclusion, refracted through the lens of Korea’s breakneck modernization and its attendant ecological and geopolitical anxieties.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
30 Mar. 2026
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The current xenophobia is a product of the socioeconomic crisis of this decade, and of the fear, among the dominant economic and cultural groups, of mass unrest or even revolution.—
Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Nativism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nativism. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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