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3 unusual facts about nativism


Nativism

Innatism, the philosophical position that minds are born with knowledge

Kokugaku or Japanese nativism, a school of Japanese philosophy that rejected Chinese texts in favor of early Japanese ones

Pacific Coast Race Riots of 1907

As the 1800s came to a close, immigration continued to increase along with Nativism, the idea of preserving the current American social values.


Generative linguistics

Chomsky's approach is characterised by the use of transformational grammar – a theory that has changed greatly since it was first promulgated by Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures – and by the assertion of a strong linguistic nativism (and therefore an assertion that some set of fundamental characteristics of all human languages must be the same).


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