Citizenism places substantially greater weight on the rights and interests of citizens than non-citizens. Citizenism is about current citizens, not about the people who may become citizens as a result of immigration or deportation policy.
By citizenism we mean an ideology of which the principal traits are 1) the belief in democracy as something capable of opposing capitalism, 2) the project of reinforcing the State (the States) so as to put this politics in place, [and] 3) the citizen as the active basis for this politics. The idea [behind citizenism] being, I think, that my opposition to open borders comes from a belief the US government should be primarily concerned with the well-being of (per Sailer) US citizens – ‘nationalism without romance’. Fair enough. Full Definition of CITIZENSHIP. 1. : the status of being a citizen. 2. a: membership in a community (as a college) b: the quality of an individual's response to membership in a community. See citizenship defined for English-language learners. See citizenship defined for kids. ADVERTISEMENT. 1 Citizenism places substantially greater weight on the rights and interests of citizens than non-citizens, though it operates within moral side-constraints. 2  Citizenism is about current citizens, not about the people who may become citizens as a result of immigration or deportation policy. I advocate what I call ‘citizenism’ as a functional, yet idealistic, alternative to the special-interest abuses of multiculturalism. Citizenism calls upon Americans to favor the well-being, even at some cost to ourselves, of our current fellow citizens over that of foreigners and internal factions. : the fact or status of being a citizen of a particular place. : the qualities that a person is expected to have as a responsible member of a community. : a belief, attitude, style, etc., that is referred to by a word that ends in the suffix-ism.
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