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Digital nativism
Mistaken belief that young folks who were born immersed in things digital are somehow in a state of grace and older folks are cursed by their age and lack of digital conditioning. Arrogant and insulting division of generations into different camps first proposed by Marc Prensky but unfounded on any survey data.
With an insulting tone worthy of the original American nativists who hated immigrants (especially Catholic ones), Marc Prensky speaks of pre-iPod humans (digital immigrants) contemptuously. This is simply digital nativism, a kind of generational prejudice that is ill founded and unsubstantiated.
Digital nativism by Songpoet November 1, 2007
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Arab nativism
The notion that Arabs are true natives of all the many countries they have colonized. In Egypt this manifests as denial of the indigenousness of Copts, in Algeria of Kabyle and other Berber peoples, in Iraq and Syria of Assyrians and Chaldeans, and in Israel this manifests as the slogan "Jesus was Palestinian."
The aim of Arab nativism is to simultaneously erase the many indigenous peoples of the MENA and assert that only the colonizers are truly indigenous.
Arab nativism by Yehe Shmeh Rabba Mevorach July 6, 2020
Nativist
Someone who stands for the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigration.
Labour: Everyone is UKIP are racist!
Nigel: No, UKIP care deeply for this country and are a group of Nativists
Nigel: No, UKIP care deeply for this country and are a group of Nativists
Nativist by PC_is_out_of_hand November 28, 2016
Backwoods Nativist
A person who is anti-immigration usually white male Southern or rural background who supports Donald Trump
Backwoods Nativist by EmJayee February 5, 2018
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