(n.) Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.
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(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?
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(1) Photograph: Daily Mail Hashtags #Hameron #Oink and #piggate started trending on the social network minutes after the Daily Mail front page containing the allegations was revealed on Sunday evening.