Existing ideational approaches to nativism tend conflate the concept with nationalism, xenophobia and populism, as well overlooking role of racism racialisation in process constructing non-native ‘out-group’, against native ‘in-group’. Inspired by Discourse Theoretical approach this article offers a significant conceptual contribution studies on far right interpreting racist xenophobic discours...

One of the most important recent developments in the study of concepts has been the resurgence of interest in nativist accounts of the human conceptual system. However, many theorists suppose that a key feature of neural organization—the brain’s plasticity—undermines the nativist approach to concept acquisition. In this chapter, we will argue that, while this view of the matter has an initial a...

Migration as well as group conflict has occurred throughout history. This thesis examined why in response to internal migration to Mumbai, Bangalore, and Delhi there are varying levels of nativism. The level of nativism was found to be high in Mumbai, medium in Delhi, and low in Bangalore. Anti-migrant sentiment was explained by political competition in Mumbai, class prejudice in Delhi, and an ...

Radical concept nativism is the thesis that virtually all lexical concepts are innate. Notoriously endorsed by Jerry Fodor, radical concept nativism has had few supporters. However, it has proven difficult to say exactly what’s wrong with Fodor’s argument. We show that previous responses are inadequate on a number of grounds. Chief among these is that they typically do not achieve sufficient di...

Abstract Nativism is one of the defining phenomena contemporary era. Yet, we know little about how malleable citizen attitudes associated with nativism and nationalism are to priming effects when media frames which deal key issues such as immigration introduced. In this article, present findings from a survey experiment fielded nationally representative sample voters in Australia May 2019. it, ...

Recent interest in PDP (parallel distributed processing) models is due in part to the widely held belief that they challenge many of the assumptions of classical cognitive science. In the domain of language acquisition, for example, there has been much interest in the claim that PDP models might undermine nativism. Related arguments based on PDP learning have also been given against Fodor's ant...

What are the attitudinal consequences of growing pervasiveness populism and nativism? We conceive both nativism as binary moral frameworks predicated on an antagonistic relationship between ‘us’ ‘them’. Our study investigates presence spillover effects these two forms ingroup-outgroup thinking among survey respondents in Netherlands. posit that exposure to populist (nativist) messages fuels (po...