(n.) Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.
Example Sentences:
(1) While this is something that gives substance to the familiar cry of “Never again,” it will be up to the countries in the western Balkans, and in particular Bosnia and Herzegovina, to engage in an honest reckoning with the past, rather than narratives based on chauvinism or denial.
(2) The forces of chauvinism, protectionism and xenophobia have been emboldened.
(3) There is not suddenly four times as much chauvinism as there was in 2015.
(4) He spent weeks with costume getting the right suit tailoring, and his reading of the character restored Bond’s manly pugnacity but ditched the dated chauvinism.
(5) She thinks that the 20 February incident probably had its roots in "ethno-centric chauvinism and hatred" of the Rohingya.
(6) To Chinese, particularly during his days fighting Chinese chauvinism in the name of a multiracial Singapore identity, the Cambridge-educated lawyer brought up to believe in English education if not in British institutions, Lee was a “banana” – yellow on the outside, white inside.
(7) You may not immediately see what's wrong with that, so ingrained is our unconscious northern hemisphere chauvinism.
(8) The tension is acute: the most aggressive Euroscepticism blends into ethnic chauvinism, which drives moderates to defend the EU by default.
(9) The danger at the moment is because society is under economic stress, xenophobia, chauvinism and polarisation increase.
(10) Six things you need to know Read more Certainly, the commander’s press release, with its promise of addressing any individuals they encounter, seems to have been calculated to inject a note of implicit chauvinism into run-of-the-mill policing.
(11) Today, our common goal is to counter the glorification of Nazism, firmly counter attempts to revise the results of world war II and consequently fight any forms and manifestations of racism, xenophobia, aggressive nationalism and chauvinism.” The Serbian prime minister, Aleksandar Vucic, said there was no contradiction between his government’s aspirations for EU accession and its warm welcome for Putin.
(12) Perhaps this is unsurprising: Tito's 35 years in power now seem like a golden plateau of peace between two hellish abysses of exterminatory inter-ethnic chauvinism.
(13) Its dramatic growth in the 1960s and 1970s was accompanied by much theoretical disagreement and professional "chauvinism."
(14) Photograph: Rémi Chauvin for the Guardian Even now, it is not difficult to find the suffering grandchildren of Kiribati.
(15) Among the war's real lessons are that empire, in all its forms, always leads to bloodshed; that state violence is by far its most destructive form; that corporate carve-ups fuel conflict; and that militarism and national chauvinism are the road to perdition.
(16) Salmond needs no sympathisers from the land he has likened to 16th-century Spain, stealing "Inca gold" (or oil), but if we have been slow to declare support, it could be because extreme, flag-waving chauvinism has been strongly discouraged in British schools for generations, with the postwar decline of nationalism only intensified by multicultural nerves.
(17) More effectively, every Nazi utterance is in subtitled, guttural, invective-heavy German, which produces the movie's one truly chilling sequence, a mass choir of pretty little Aryan schoolgirls singing a real Nazi hymn that's all racial chauvinism, down with the Jews and death to the untermenschen , as Kristallnacht unfolds in cross-cuts.
(18) And the underlying critique of western chauvinism (that western-style capitalist democracy is the best model for the rest) remains pertinent when people persist in talking of development "ladders", for example.
(19) Fourquet also argues that across Europe rightwing populist parties have recognised that their message is more effective if it appeals to what he calls "welfare chauvinism".
(20) This is more than retrospective bravado or old-biddy chauvinism of the "young people?
Jingoism
Definition:
(n.) The policy of the Jingoes, so called. See Jingo, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(2) Ministers have promised there will be no "jingoism", but Cameron says he wants to remember those who "gave their lives for our freedom" and ensure that "the lessons learned live with us for ever".
(3) Unthinking support for the US was the mirror image of virulent Euroscepticism: initial jingoism morphed into silence as the Afghan campaign went wrong.
(4) Labor supported Australia’s contribution to the mission in Iraq, he said, not as “a matter of jingoism or nationalism” but based on “a calculation of conscience and national interest”.
(5) What I did say, in an article in the Guardian on 13 July 2013 , was that the broad and inclusive plans of Maria Miller, the culture secretary, for the commemoration of the centenary of the outbreak of the first world war have been "in strong contrast to the narrow, tub-thumping jingoism of Gove" in his redrafting of the national schools history curriculum to force schools to teach an uncritically celebratory narrative of English history.
(6) Both men remembered events slightly to their own advantage, but the bigger cause for the discrepancy is jingoism.
(7) There is more Britishness in self-deprecation than in jingoism, more national identity in embarrassment than in brash self-assertion.
(8) Growing up in New York with artist parents – a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo – I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism.
(9) Quite the opposite, in fact, as the former Smiths singer has sent an open letter to members of his fanclub attacking the "blustering jingoism" of the Olympic Games .
(10) This as we enter 2017, the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Holyoake , the man who coined the word “jingoism”.
(11) This jingoism from Mr Howard, that he wants to put on the battle-dress, is grotesque and ridiculous.
(12) The full text of the letter to members of his True to You fanclub reads: "I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event.
(13) According to Gove, I have demeaned the memory of the British soldiers who fought in the first world war and "attacked the very idea of honouring their sacrifice as an exercise in 'narrow tub-thumping jingoism'".
(14) Indeed, it’s deputy chair, Chris Nineham, told the Today programme that his organisation would not be organising or joining any protests outside the Russian embassy because that would merely fuel the “hysteria and the jingoism” currently being whipped up against Moscow.
(15) Morrissey was as adrift in his comments about "blustering jingoism" as the MP Burley has been about multiculturalism in the opening ceremony.
(16) Jingoism's Guy Mowbray, on the BBC, is arguing that the laughable decision not to award Lampard's goal was more wrong than the one which allowed Hurst's goal all those years ago.
(17) Yet already the "secretary of state who should know better", Michael Gove, has seized the moment for tub-thumping jingoism against his political foes.
(18) Theresa May would go to war to protect Gibraltar, Michael Howard says Read more “I’m sorry, this is 2017-18, it’s not 1851 [...] The idea of Spain going to war against Britain over Gibraltar is frankly absurd, and reeks of 19th-century jingoism,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
(19) If nationalism is supposed to come first, whatever the facts suggest, then you are in the jingoism business, or the propaganda business, not the news business.
(20) Everything was underpinned not by a raucous jingoism but by a determined pride in what our country now is and to show that we can be the best, a patriotism that allows us to be open to the cream of the world but also to use it for our own purposes.