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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 na·tiv·ism /ˈnetɪˌvɪzəm/
 先天論,天性論,本土主義

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Na·tiv·ism n.
 1. The disposition to favor the native inhabitants of a country, in preference to immigrants from foreign countries.
 2. Philos. The doctrine of innate ideas, or that the mind possesses forms of thought independent of sensation.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 nativism
      n 1: the policy of perpetuating native cultures (in opposition to
           acculturation)
      2: (philosophy) the philosophical theory that some ideas are
         innate