What is Freemasonry? Please elaborate on who or what the Freemasons are. Freemasonry or Masonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.
Definition: Nativism is an irrational prejudice against immigrants, and in favor of the native-born members of a particular culture. It is often associated with racism in that the targets of nativism typically belong to a different ethnic group than the perpetrators.
Relativism, roughly put, is the view that truth and falsity, right and wrong, standards of reasoning, and procedures of justification are products of differing conventions and frameworks of assessment and that their authority is confined to the context giving rise to them. (d) The normative principle of a need for tolerance and acceptance towards other points of view (see Â§2.6), which leads to so-called ânormative or prescriptive cultural relativismâ, or the positions that cultural relativism is a moral requirement (see also normative moral relativism in Â§4.5).