as in nationalism
excessive favoritism towards one's own country
their ingrained chauvinism has blinded them to their country's faults
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Their aim was to present a united front against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party, whose chauvinism and authoritarianism have had a chilling effect on the world’s biggest democracy.
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Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
What’s more, critics say, the campaign encourages cultural chauvinism—tribal strength and sovereignty depend on a community being able to determine whom to invite in, not on the watchful policing of sometimes arbitrary genetic boundaries.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
Men turn up in just a tiny handful — a 2010 series on the Christian origin story of Adam and Eve — but only to clarify the structural foundations of routine, often unacknowledged chauvinism.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
In the major league of KVN, Zelensky came face-to-face with a brand of Russian chauvinism that would, in far uglier form, manifest itself about two decades later in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
—Simon Shuster, TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
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Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
What’s more, critics say, the campaign encourages cultural chauvinism—tribal strength and sovereignty depend on a community being able to determine whom to invite in, not on the watchful policing of sometimes arbitrary genetic boundaries.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
Men turn up in just a tiny handful — a 2010 series on the Christian origin story of Adam and Eve — but only to clarify the structural foundations of routine, often unacknowledged chauvinism.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
In the major league of KVN, Zelensky came face-to-face with a brand of Russian chauvinism that would, in far uglier form, manifest itself about two decades later in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
—Simon Shuster, TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
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